Proverbs 23:1-11

1 When you sit to eat with a ruler,  Consider diligently what is before you;

2 Put a knife to your throat,  If you are a man given to appetite.

3 Don't be desirous of his dainties,  Seeing they are deceitful food.

4 Don't weary yourself to be rich.  In your wisdom, show restraint.

5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?  For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,  And don't crave his delicacies:

7 For as he thinks about the cost, so he is.  "Eat and drink!" he says to you,  But his heart is not with you.

8 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up,  And lose your good words. 

9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool,  For he will despise the wisdom of your words. 

10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone.  Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

11 For their Defender is strong.  He will plead their case against you. 

1 Timothy 6:3-10

3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,  4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,  5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.  7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.  8 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.  9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.  10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.