³ Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.

⁶ Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

⁴ Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.

⁸ And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.

³⁴ But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

²² That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;