Proverbs 4:17

American Standard Version 2015

For they eat the bread of wickedness,\par\tab And drink the wine of violence.

Cross References

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.

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,\par\tab Who eat up my people {\i as} they eat bread,\par\tab And call not upon Jehovah?

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.\par

Zephaniah 3:3

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

Micah 3:5

Thus saith Jehovah 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:

Proverbs 20:17

Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man;\par\tab But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 9:17

Stolen waters are sweet,\par\tab And bread {\i eaten} in secret is pleasant.

Proverbs 13:2

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth;\par\tab But the soul of the treacherous {\i shall eat} violence.

Micah 7:3

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

Isaiah 5:18

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, 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 go about with slanders.