Welcome to Proverbs chapter 23 on Build Your Bible Habit. Look how far you've come. This chapter,

it reads like a textbook on temperance. Temperance will cost you something, but it will pay you more.

Let's listen to this chapter together. Proverbs chapter 23, when thou sittest to eat with a ruler,

consider diligently what is before thee, and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to

appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties, for they are deceitful meat. Labor not to be rich, cease from thine own wisdom.

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?

For riches certainly make themselves wings, they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats, for as he thinketh

in his heart, so is he. Eat and drink, saith he to thee, but his heart is not with thee.

The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

Speak not in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of

thy words. Remove not the old landmark, and enter not into the fields of the fatherless,

for their redeemer is mighty. He shall plead their cause with thee. Apply thine heart unto

instruction and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.

My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. Yea, my reign shall

rejoice when thy lips speak right things. Let not thine heart and be sinners, but be thou in the fear of the

Lord all the day long, for surely there is an end and thine expectation shall not be cut off hear thou my son and be wise and guide thine heart in the way be not among wine-bibbers among righteous eaters of flesh for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags

hearken unto thy father that begat thee and despise not

thy mother when she is old. By the truth and sell it not. Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

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