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PRO 23:1
Proverbs 23:1 |
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When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider
diligently what is before thee: |
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PRO 23:2
Proverbs 23:2 |
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And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a
man given to appetite. |
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PRO 23:3
Proverbs 23:3 |
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Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are
deceitful meat. |
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PRO 23:4
Proverbs 23:4 |
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Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own
wisdom. |
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PRO 23:5
Proverbs 23:5 |
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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is
not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward
heaven. |
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PRO 23:6
Proverbs 23:6 |
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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil
eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: |
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PRO 23:7
Proverbs 23:7 |
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For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat
and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. |
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PRO 23:8
Proverbs 23:8 |
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The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou
vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. |
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PRO 23:9
Proverbs 23:9 |
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Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will
despise the wisdom of thy words. |
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PRO 23:10
Proverbs 23:10 |
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Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into
the fields of the fatherless: |
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PRO 23:11
Proverbs 23:11 |
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For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead
their cause with thee. |
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PRO 23:12
Proverbs 23:12 |
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Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine
ears to the words of knowledge. |
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PRO 23:13
Proverbs 23:13 |
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Withhold not correction from the child: for
if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. |
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PRO 23:14
Proverbs 23:14 |
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Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt
deliver his soul from hell. |
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PRO 23:15
Proverbs 23:15 |
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My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall
rejoice, even mine. |
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PRO 23:16
Proverbs 23:16 |
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Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak
right things. |
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PRO 23:17
Proverbs 23:17 |
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Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou
in the fear of the LORD all the day long. |
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PRO 23:18
Proverbs 23:18 |
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For surely there is an end; and thine expectation
shall not be cut off. |
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PRO 23:19
Proverbs 23:19 |
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Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine
heart in the way. |
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PRO 23:20
Proverbs 23:20 |
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Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters
of flesh: |
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PRO 23:21
Proverbs 23:21 |
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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come
to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. |
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PRO 23:22
Proverbs 23:22 |
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Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and
despise not thy mother when she is old. |
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PRO 23:23
Proverbs 23:23 |
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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom,
and instruction, and understanding. |
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PRO 23:24
Proverbs 23:24 |
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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice:
and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. |
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PRO 23:25
Proverbs 23:25 |
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Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and
she that bare thee shall rejoice. |
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PRO 23:26
Proverbs 23:26 |
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My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes
observe my ways. |
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PRO 23:27
Proverbs 23:27 |
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For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman
is a narrow pit. |
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PRO 23:28
Proverbs 23:28 |
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She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth
the transgressors among men. |
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PRO 23:29
Proverbs 23:29 |
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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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PRO 23:30
Proverbs 23:30 |
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They that tarry long at the wine; they that
go to seek mixed wine. |
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PRO 23:31
Proverbs 23:31 |
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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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PRO 23:32
Proverbs 23:32 |
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At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth
like an adder. |
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PRO 23:33
Proverbs 23:33 |
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Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine
heart shall utter perverse things. |
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PRO 23:34
Proverbs 23:34 |
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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. |
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PRO 23:35
Proverbs 23:35 |
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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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