Proverbs 23:3
Good News Translation
Don't be greedy for the fine food he serves; he may be trying to trick you.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not desire the ruler’s delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

Contemporary English Version
Don't be greedy for all of that fancy food! It may not be so tasty.

New American Bible
Do not desire his delicacies; it is food that deceives.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.

Proverbs 23:6 Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:

Psalm 141:4 Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.

Daniel 1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with the king's table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested the master of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Ephesians 4:22 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

Context
True Riches
2And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power. 3Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.4Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.…
Cross References
Psalm 141:4
Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.

Proverbs 23:6
Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:

Daniel 1:5
And the king appointed them a daily provision, of his own meat, and of the wine of which he drank himself, that being nourished three years, afterwards they might stand before the king.

Daniel 1:8
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with the king's table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested the master of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.

Proverbs 23:2
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