And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.
For you will put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to desire.
Place a knife at your throat to control your appetite.
and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.
And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;
Be not among winebibbers; Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.