THEOSISProverbs 9:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.
מַֽיִם־גְּנוּבִ֥ים יִמְתָּ֑קוּ וְלֶ֖חֶם סְתָרִ֣ים יִנְעָֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 20:17The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- Prov 23:31Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,
- Prov 23:32But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
- Jas 1:14But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.
- Jas 1:15Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.
- Prov 30:20Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.
- Gen 3:6And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.
- Rom 7:8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.