Proverbs 21:17

Proverbs 21:17
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

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Genesis 18:6
Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, If it has to be so, then do this: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels to give the man, perfumes and honey and spices and nuts:

Exodus 13:6
For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

Numbers 11:5
Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:

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.

Deuteronomy 12:17
In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;

Deuteronomy 32:14
Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.

Judges 6:19
Then Gideon went in and made ready a young goat, and with an ephah of meal he made unleavened cakes: he put the meat in a basket and the soup in which it had been cooked he put in a pot, and he took it out to him under the oak-tree and gave it to him there.

Judges 14:8
Then after a time he went back to take her; and turning from the road to see the dead body of the lion, he saw a mass of bees in the body of the lion, and honey there.

1 Samuel 17:17
And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

1 Samuel 17:18
And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.

1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

1 Samuel 30:12
And they gave him part of a cake of figs and some dry grapes; and after the food, his spirit came back to him, for he had had no food or drink for three days and nights.

2 Samuel 16:2
And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.

2 Samuel 17:29
And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

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1 Kings 4:23
Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.

Job 10:10
Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?

Amos 8:2
And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.

Matthew 3:4
Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.

Matthew 7:10
Or if he makes a request for a fish, will give him a snake?

Luke 24:42
And they gave him a bit of cooked fish.

John 6:7
Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.

John 21:9
When they got to land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish cooking on it, and bread.

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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;

Proverbs 23:2
And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.

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.

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 11:24
A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.

Proverbs 21:20
There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.

Proverbs 27:9
Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

Proverbs 28:19
By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

Amos 6:6
Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

Luke 15:13
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

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