Proverbs:23:1-24
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When thou sittest to eat with a ruler , (
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Eat with sobriety .(:
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consider diligently what [
is ]
before thee :
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Be not desirous of his dainties : (
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For often the rich when they bid their inferiors to their tables ,
it is not for the love they bear them ,
but for their own secret purposes .(:
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for they [
are ]
deceitful food .
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Labour not to be rich :
cease from thy own (
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Bestow not the gifts that God has given you ,
to get worldly riches .(:
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wisdom .
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Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it ,
which is nothing ?
For riches taketh her to her wings ,
as an eagle ,
and flyeth into the heauen .
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Eat thou not the bread of [
him that hath ]
an (
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That is ,
covetous ,
as contrary a good eye is taken for liberal as in (
Pro_22
:9 ).(:
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evil eye ,
neither desire thou his delicacies :
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For as though he thought it in his heart ,
so will hee say vnto thee ,
Eate and drinke :
but his heart is not with thee .
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The (
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He will not cease till he has done you some harm ,
and his flattering words will come to no use .(:
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morsel [
which ]
thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up ,
and lose thy sweet words .
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Speake not in the eares of a foole :
for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes .
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Remooue not the ancient boundes ,
and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse .
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For he that redeemeth them ,
is mightie :
he will defend their cause against thee .
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Apply thine heart to instruction ,
and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge .
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Withhold not correction from the childe :
if thou smite him with the rodde ,
he shall not die .
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Thou shalt beat him with the rod ,
and shalt deliver his soul from (
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That is ,
from destruction .(:
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hell .
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My sonne ,
if thine heart be wise ,
mine heart shall reioyce ,
and I also .
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And my reynes shall reioyce ,
when thy lips speake righteous things .
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Let not thine heart bee enuious against sinners :
but let it bee in the feare of the Lorde continually .
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For surely there is an end ; (
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The prosperity of the wicked will not continue .(:
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and thy expectation shall not be cut off .
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Hear thou ,
my son ,
and be wise ,
and guide thy heart in the (
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In the observation of God '
s commandments .(:
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way .
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Keepe not company with drunkards ,
nor with gluttons .
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For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore ,
and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges .
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Obey thy father that hath begotten thee ,
and despise not thy mother when she is olde .
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Buy (
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Spare no cost for truths sake ,
neither depart from it for any gain .(:
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the truth ,
and sell [
it ]
not ; [
also ]
wisdom ,
and instruction ,
and understanding .
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The father of the righteous shal greatly reioyce ,
and hee that begetteth a wise childe ,
shall haue ioy of him .
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