Proverbs 9:17

New International Version

“Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!”

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Proverbs 20:17

Food gained by fraud tastes sweet, but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.

Proverbs 30:20

“This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’

Proverbs 5:16

Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

Proverbs 5:18

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Romans 7:8

But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

Ephesians 5:12

It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.