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