Proverbs:23:1-24

kjv@Proverbs:23:1 @ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

kjv@Proverbs:23:2 @ And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

kjv@Proverbs:23:3 @ Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

kjv@Proverbs:23:4 @ Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

kjv@Proverbs:23:5 @ Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

kjv@Proverbs:23:6 @ Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

kjv@Proverbs:23:7 @ For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

kjv@Proverbs:23:8 @ The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

kjv@Proverbs:23:9 @ Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

kjv@Proverbs:23:10 @ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

kjv@Proverbs:23:11 @ For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

kjv@Proverbs:23:12 @ Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

kjv@Proverbs:23:13 @ Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

kjv@Proverbs:23:14 @ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

kjv@Proverbs:23:15 @ My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

kjv@Proverbs:23:16 @ Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

kjv@Proverbs:23:17 @ Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

kjv@Proverbs:23:18 @ For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

kjv@Proverbs:23:19 @ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

kjv@Proverbs:23:20 @ Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

kjv@Proverbs:23:21 @ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

kjv@Proverbs:23:22 @ Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

kjv@Proverbs:23:23 @ Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

kjv@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

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