Proverbs 9:17
King James Version
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Proverbs 9:17 in context
15To call passengers who go right on their ways:
16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
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