Proverbs 23:6

The Message

Don’t accept a meal from a tightwad; don’t expect anything special. He’ll be as stingy with you as he is with himself; he’ll say, “Eat! Drink!” but won’t mean a word of it. His miserly serving will turn your stomach when you realize the meal’s a sham.

Cross References

Proverbs 22:9

Generous hands are blessed hands because they give bread to the poor.

Proverbs 28:22

A miser in a hurry to get rich doesn’t know that he’ll end up broke.

Deuteronomy 28:56

And the most gentle and caring woman among you, a woman who wouldn’t step on a wildflower, will turn hard, her eye evil, against her cherished husband, against her son, against her daughter, against even the afterbirth of her newborn infants; she plans to eat them in secret—she does eat them!—because she has lost everything, even her humanity, in the suffering of the siege that your enemy mounts against your fortified towns.