Proverbs 4:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 treacherous shall eat violence.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards 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 neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will go about with slanders.

Micah 3:5

Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth and cry, Peace; and whoso 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

Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the mischief of his soul: thus they weave it together.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.

Matthew 23:13

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.