Proverbs 4:17

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

Will these evildoers never learn? They devour my people as they devour bread; they do not call upon the Lord.

Proverbs 13:2

From the fruit of the mouth one enjoys good things, but from the throat of the treacherous comes violence.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread earned by deceit is sweet, but afterward the mouth is filled with gravel.

Proverbs 9:17

Stolen water is sweet, and bread taken secretly is pleasing!”

Isaiah 5:18

Ah! Those who tug at guilt with cords of perversity, and at sin as if with cart ropes!

Isaiah 5:20

Ah! Those who call evil good, and good evil, who change darkness to light, and light into darkness, who change bitter to sweet, and sweet into bitter!

Jeremiah 9:4

Each one deceives the other, no one speaks the truth. They have accustomed their tongues to lying, they are perverse and cannot repent.

Micah 3:5

Thus says the Lord regarding the prophets: O you who lead my people astray, When your teeth have something to bite you announce peace, But proclaim war against the one who fails to put something in your mouth.

Micah 6:12

You whose wealthy are full of violence, whose inhabitants speak falsehood with deceitful tongues in their mouths!

Micah 7:3

Their hands succeed at evil; the prince makes demands, The judge is bought for a price, the powerful speak as they please.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials within it are roaring lions; Its judges are desert wolves that have no bones to gnaw by morning.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter. [