Proverbs 23:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Do not eat the bread of the stingy; do not desire their delicacies,

Cross References

Psalm 141:4

Do not turn my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with those who work iniquity; do not let me eat of their delicacies.

Proverbs 22:9

Those who are generous are blessed, for they share their bread with the poor.

Proverbs 23:3

Do not desire an official’s delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

Proverbs 28:22

The miser is in a hurry to get rich and does not know that loss is sure to come.

Matthew 20:15

Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Mark 7:22

adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful that you do not entertain a mean thought, thinking, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and therefore view your needy neighbor with hostility and give nothing; your neighbor might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.

Deuteronomy 28:56

She who is the most refined and gentle among you, so gentle and refined that she does not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge food to the husband whom she embraces, to her own son, and to her own daughter,