Proverbs 4:16

Modern English Version

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; their sleep is taken away unless they make someone stumble.

Cross References

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Psalm 36:4

He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he does not reject evil.

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 2:14

who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of evil,

Proverbs 4:15

Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn away from it and pass on.

Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Jeremiah 9:4

Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother; for every brother supplants, and every neighbor walks about with slanders.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who conceive wickedness, to those who devise evil on their beds! At morning’s light they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are upon evil, to do it well. The prince and the judge request the bribe, the powerful asserts the craving of his very soul— they intertwine together.

Luke 22:66

When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, came together and led Him away to their council, saying,

John 18:28

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. Yet they themselves did not enter the Praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

Acts 24:7

But the commander, Lysias, came to us and forcefully took him out of our hands,

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin. They entice unstable souls. Their hearts are trained in greed. They are cursed children!