Proverbs 9:5 {6}
Good News Translation
"Come, eat my food and drink the wine that I have mixed.

New Revised Standard Version
“Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.

Contemporary English Version
All of you are welcome to my meat and wine.

New American Bible
Come, eat of my food, and drink of the wine I have mixed!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.

Proverbs 9:2,17 She hath sent her maids to invite to the tower, and to the walls of the city: . . .

Psalm 22:26,29 The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever. . . .

Songs 5:1 Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

Isaiah 55:1-3 All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price. . . .

Jeremiah 31:12-14 And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and they shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more. . . .

Matthew 26:26-28 And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my body. . . .

John 6:27,49-58 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed. . . .

Context
The Way of Wisdom
4Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you. 5Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.6He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself; and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.…
Cross References
John 6:27
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

Songs 5:1
Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

Isaiah 55:1
All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price.

Proverbs 9:4
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