Proverbs 4:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ They eat the bread of evil, and they drink the wine of violence.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ They eat the bread of impiety, and they drink the wine of iniquity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.

Proverbs 4:17 Cross References

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

Proverbs 13:2

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 9:17

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Isaiah 5:20

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Jeremiah 9:4

Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

Micah 3:5

Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

Micah 6:12

For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Micah 7:3

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

Matthew 23:13

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.