Proverbs 9:17

Modern King James Version

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 30:20

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no evil.

Proverbs 5:16

Should your overflowing spring be scattered abroad as rivers of waters in the streets.

Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Romans 7:8

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of lust. For apart from law sin was dead.

Ephesians 5:12

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.