Proverbs 4:17

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Micah 6:12

Her wealthy men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak deception, and their tongue in their mouth is treachery.

Psalm 14:4

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

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

Micah 3:5

Thus says the Lord: Regarding the prophets who mislead My people — the ones who have something to eat proclaim “Peace,” but if one does not feed them, then they prepare for war against him.

Proverbs 20:17

The bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward is his mouth filled with gravel.

Proverbs 9:17

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

Proverbs 13:2

A man will eat well by the fruit of his words, but the soul of the unfaithful desires violence.

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.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood and sin as if with a cart rope,

Isaiah 5:20

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

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.