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Proverbs 23:1-35
Proverbs 23:1-35
The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain
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indulgence of the appetite in eating and drinking, a sin that most
easily besets us. 1. We are here told when we enter into temptation,
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