Proverbs 23:1
When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;
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Proverbs 23:1
When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;
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Proverbs 23:2
And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.
Proverbs 23:3
Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
Deuteronomy 21:20
And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.
Proverbs 23:20
Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
Proverbs 23:21
For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
Luke 21:34
But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
Numbers 11:32
And all that day and all night and the day after, the people were taking up the birds; the smallest amount which anyone got was ten homers: and they put them out all round the tents.
Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
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Luke 12:22
And he said to his disciples, For this reason I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about what food you will take, or for your body, how it may be clothed.
Psalms 141:4
Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.
1 Corinthians 10:31
So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.
Luke 10:8
And into whatever town you go, if they take you in, take whatever food is given to you:
1 Corinthians 10:25
Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;
1 Timothy 4:4
Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:
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Proverbs 25:16
If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.
Proverbs 21:17
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
Acts 24:25
And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you.
1 Corinthians 9:25
And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown.
Galatians 5:23
Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.
Titus 2:2
That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.
2 Peter 1:6
And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,
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Proverbs 23:6
Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
Proverbs 23:7
For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23:8
The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
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