Proverbs 23 : 1 (AKJV)
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
Proverbs 23 : 2 (AKJV)
And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.
Proverbs 23 : 3 (AKJV)
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Proverbs 23 : 4 (AKJV)
Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
Proverbs 23 : 5 (AKJV)
Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 23 : 6 (AKJV)
Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
Proverbs 23 : 7 (AKJV)
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, said he to you; but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23 : 8 (AKJV)
The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.
Proverbs 23 : 9 (AKJV)
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Proverbs 23 : 10 (AKJV)
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Proverbs 23 : 11 (AKJV)
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
Proverbs 23 : 12 (AKJV)
Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23 : 13 (AKJV)
Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs 23 : 14 (AKJV)
You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.
Proverbs 23 : 15 (AKJV)
My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Proverbs 23 : 16 (AKJV)
Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
Proverbs 23 : 17 (AKJV)
Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Proverbs 23 : 18 (AKJV)
For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
Proverbs 23 : 19 (AKJV)
Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
Proverbs 23 : 20 (AKJV)
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Proverbs 23 : 21 (AKJV)
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 23 : 22 (AKJV)
Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23 : 23 (AKJV)
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 23 : 24 (AKJV)
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of him.
Proverbs 23 : 25 (AKJV)
Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.
Proverbs 23 : 26 (AKJV)
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
Proverbs 23 : 27 (AKJV)
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Proverbs 23 : 28 (AKJV)
She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
Proverbs 23 : 29 (AKJV)
Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
Proverbs 23 : 30 (AKJV)
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Proverbs 23 : 31 (AKJV)
Look not you on the wine when it is red, when it gives his color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
Proverbs 23 : 32 (AKJV)
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
Proverbs 23 : 33 (AKJV)
Your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
Proverbs 23 : 34 (AKJV)
Yes, you shall be as he that lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he that lies on the top of a mast.
Proverbs 23 : 35 (AKJV)
They have stricken me, shall you 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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