Proverbs 4:17; Proverbs 6:8; Proverbs 6:26; Proverbs 9:5; Proverbs 9:17; Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 20:17; Proverbs 22:9; Proverbs 23:6; Proverbs 25:21; Proverbs 27:27; Proverbs 28:19; Proverbs 28:21; Proverbs 30:8; Proverbs 30:25; Proverbs 31:14; Proverbs 31:27

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Proverbs 4:17

17 They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
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Proverbs 6:8

8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
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Proverbs 6:26

26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.
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Proverbs 9:5

5 “Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed.
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Proverbs 9:17

17 “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!”
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Proverbs 12:11

11 Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.
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Proverbs 20:17

17 Food gained by fraud tastes sweet, but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.
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Proverbs 22:9

9 The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.
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Proverbs 23:6

6 Do not eat the food of a begrudging host, do not crave his delicacies;
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Proverbs 25:21

21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
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Proverbs 27:27

27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants.
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Proverbs 28:19

19 Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.
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Proverbs 28:21

21 To show partiality is not good— yet a person will do wrong for a piece of bread.
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Proverbs 30:8

8 Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.
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Proverbs 30:25

25 Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;
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Proverbs 31:14

14 She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
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Proverbs 31:27

27 She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
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