In Proverbs 23 we read:
Restrain Yourself
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1-3 When you go out to dinner with an influential person,
mind your manners:
Don’t gobble your food,
don’t talk with your mouth full.
And don’t stuff yourself;
bridle your appetite.
Restrain yourself when you have a dinner with an influential person.
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6-8 Don’t accept a meal from a tightwad;
don’t expect anything special.
He’ll be as stingy with you as he is with himself;
he’ll say, “Eat! Drink!” but won’t mean a word of it.
His miserly serving will turn your stomach
when you realize the meal’s a sham.
Restrain yourself when you have a dinner with a tightwad.
It is wise (to live longer) to restrain yourself even when you have dinner alone.
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4-5 Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich;
restrain yourself!
Riches disappear in the blink of an eye;
wealth sprouts wings
and flies off into the wild blue yonder.
What for do I live? To please the Lord? If so, the Lord wants me to be grateful to what He has done to me.
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9 Don’t bother talking sense to fools;
they’ll only poke fun at your words.
Christians must to spread the Word with caution because they must study how is the reaction of their listeners.
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13-14 Don’t be afraid to correct your young ones;
a spanking won’t kill them.
A good spanking, in fact, might save them
from something worse than death.
The Lord corrects his sons, and we must do the same as parents.
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15-16 Dear child, if you become wise,
I’ll be one happy parent.
My heart will dance and sing
to the tuneful truth you’ll speak.
The father rejoices when he sees wisdom in his son.
Buy Wisdom, Education, Insight
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22-25 Listen with respect to the father who raised you,
and when your mother grows old, don’t neglect her.
Buy truth—don’t sell it for love or money;
buy wisdom, buy education, buy insight.
Parents rejoice when their children turn out well;
wise children become proud parents.
So make your father happy!
Make your mother proud!
Is wisdom free of charge? The wise understands how wisdom is valuable.
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