Proverbs 4:17

New Century Version

They feast on wickedness and cruelty as if they were eating bread and drinking wine.

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

Don’t the wicked understand? They destroy my people as if they were eating bread. They do not ask the Lord for help.

Proverbs 13:2

People will be rewarded for what they say, but those who can’t be trusted want only violence.

Proverbs 20:17

Stolen food may taste sweet at first, but later it will feel like a mouth full of gravel.

Proverbs 9:17

Stolen water is sweeter, and food eaten in secret tastes better.”

Isaiah 5:18

How terrible it will be for those people! They pull their guilt and sins behind them as people pull wagons with ropes.

Isaiah 5:20

How terrible it will be for people who call good things bad and bad things good, who think darkness is light and light is darkness, who think sour is sweet and sweet is sour.

Jeremiah 9:4

“Watch out for your friends, and don’t trust your own relatives, because every relative is a cheater, and every friend tells lies about you.

Micah 3:5

The Lord says this about the prophets who teach his people the wrong way of living: “If these prophets are given food to eat, they shout, ‘Peace!’ But if someone doesn’t give them what they ask for, they call for a holy war against that person.

Micah 6:12

The rich people of the city do cruel things. Its people tell lies; they do not tell the truth.

Micah 7:3

With both hands they are doing evil. Rulers ask for money, and judges’ decisions are bought for a price. Rich people tell what they want, and they get it.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officers are like roaring lions. Its rulers are like hungry wolves that attack in the evening, and in the morning nothing is left of those they attacked.

Matthew 23:13

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the door for people to enter the kingdom of heaven. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop others who are trying to enter. [