Proverbs 23

 Verses :  {1}  {2}  {3}  {4}  {5}  {6}  {7}  {8}  {9}  {10}  {11}  {12}  {13}  {14}  {15}  {16}  {17}  {18}  {19}  {20}  {21}  {22}  {23}  {24}  {25}  {26}  {27}  {28}  {29}  {30}  {31}  {32}  {33}  {34}  {35}

^ Pr 23.1:   When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee:
^ Pr 23.2:   And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite.
^ Pr 23.3:   Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful meat.
^ Pr 23.4:   Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
^ Pr 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.
^ Pr 23.6:   Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
^ Pr 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.
^ Pr 23.8:   The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
^ Pr 23.9:   Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
^ Pr 23.10:   Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
^ Pr 23.11:   For their redeemer [is] mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
^ Pr 23.12:   Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
^ Pr 23.13:   Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
^ Pr 23.14:   Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
^ Pr 23.15:   My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
^ Pr 23.16:   Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
^ Pr 23.17:   Let not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
^ Pr 23.18:   For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
^ Pr 23.19:   Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
^ Pr 23.20:   Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
^ Pr 23.21:   For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.
^ Pr 23.22:   Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
^ Pr 23.23:   Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
^ Pr 23.24:   The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him.
^ Pr 23.25:   Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
^ Pr 23.26:   My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
^ Pr 23.27:   For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
^ Pr 23.28:   She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
^ Pr 23.29:   Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
^ Pr 23.30:   They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
^ Pr 23.31:   Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.
^ Pr 23.32:   At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
^ Pr 23.33:   Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
^ Pr 23.34:   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.
^ Pr 23.35:   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.