Proverbs 4:17 - Revised Standard Version CI

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.

Proverbs 4:17 Cross References

Psalm 14:4

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord?

Proverbs 13:2

From the fruit of his mouth a good man eats good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.

Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Jeremiah 9:4

Let every one beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother; for every brother is a supplanter, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

Micah 3:5

Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.

Micah 6:12

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.