'Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.'Proverbs 9:17 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleStolen waters are sweet - I suppose this to be a proverbial mode of expression, importing that illicit pleasures are sweeter than those which are legal The meaning is easy to be discerned; and the conduct of multitudes shows that they are ruled by this adage. On it are built all the adulterous intercourses in the land.
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Proverbs 20:17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 23:31,32 Look not you on the wine when it is red, when it gives his color in the cup, when it moves itself aright...
Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise...
Romans 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed...
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Proverbs 7:18-20 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves...
Proverbs 30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and said, I have done no wickedness.
2 Kings 5:24-27 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed...
Ephesians 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
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