(A)Do not desire his delicacies,
    for they are deceptive food.

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Do not crave his delicacies,(A)
    for that food is deceptive.

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(A)Do not eat the bread of a man who is (B)stingy;[a]
    (C)do not desire his delicacies,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:6 Hebrew whose eye is evil

Saying 9

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
    do not crave his delicacies;(A)

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(A)Do not let my heart incline to any evil,
    to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with men who (B)work iniquity,
    and (C)let me not eat of their delicacies!

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Do not let my heart(A) be drawn to what is evil
    so that I take part in wicked deeds(B)
along with those who are evildoers;
    do not let me eat their delicacies.(C)

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Watch Yourselves

34 “But watch yourselves (A)lest (B)your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and (C)cares of this life, and (D)that day come upon you suddenly (E)like a trap.

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34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life,(A) and that day will close on you suddenly(B) like a trap.

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Daniel's Faithfulness

But Daniel (A)resolved that he would not (B)defile himself with (C)the king's food, or with (D)the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to (E)defile himself.

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But Daniel resolved not to defile(A) himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.

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22 to (A)put off (B)your old self,[a] which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through (C)deceitful desires,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 4:22 Greek man; also verse 24

22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off(A) your old self,(B) which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;(C)

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