Proverbs 23:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Do not desire his delicacies; it is food that deceives.

Cross References

Psalm 141:4

Do not let my heart incline to evil, to perform deeds in wickedness. On the delicacies of evildoers let me not feast.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not take food with unwilling hosts, and do not desire their delicacies;

Daniel 1:5

The king allotted them a daily portion of food and wine from the royal table. After three years’ training they were to enter the king’s service.

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel was resolved not to defile himself with the king’s food or wine; so he begged the chief chamberlain to spare him this defilement.

Luke 21:34

“Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise

Ephesians 4:22

that you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires,