Proverbs 9:17 - King James Version - American Edition

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden]; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Prov. 20:17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ "Stolen waters are more soothing, and secret bread is more pleasant."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.

Proverbs 9:17 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 30:20

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

Proverbs 5:16

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

Proverbs 5:18

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Romans 7:8

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Ephesians 5:12

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.