Proverbs 9:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Stolen water is sweet, and bread taken secretly is pleasing!”

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

The woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and the tree was desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread earned by deceit is sweet, but afterward the mouth is filled with gravel.

Proverbs 30:20

This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wrong.”

Proverbs 5:16

Should your water sources be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets?

Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed and have joy of the wife of your youth,

Romans 7:8

But sin, finding an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetousness. Apart from the law sin is dead.

Ephesians 5:12

for it is shameful even to mention the things done by them in secret;