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The Scripture Index.
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Proverbs 23
- Proverbs 23:1KJV.20.023.001
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:2KJV.20.023.002
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:3KJV.20.023.003
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:4KJV.20.023.004
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:5KJV.20.023.005
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:6KJV.20.023.006
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:7KJV.20.023.007
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:8KJV.20.023.008
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:9KJV.20.023.009
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:10KJV.20.023.010
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:11KJV.20.023.011
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:12KJV.20.023.012
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:13KJV.20.023.013
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:14KJV.20.023.014
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:15KJV.20.023.015
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:16KJV.20.023.016
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:17KJV.20.023.017
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:18KJV.20.023.018
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:19KJV.20.023.019
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
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Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:21KJV.20.023.021
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:22KJV.20.023.022
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:23KJV.20.023.023
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:24KJV.20.023.024
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:25KJV.20.023.025
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:26KJV.20.023.026
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:27KJV.20.023.027
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:28KJV.20.023.028
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
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Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
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They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:31KJV.20.023.031
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
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At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
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Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 23:35KJV.20.023.035
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
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