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Proverbs 9:17

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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

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  1. Proverbs 9:15

    To call passengers who go right on their ways:

  2. Proverbs 9:16

    Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

  3. Proverbs 9:18

    But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.