Proverbs 4:17

New English Translation

For they eat bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

All those who behave wickedly do not understand – those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord.

Proverbs 13:2

From the fruit of his speech a person eats good things, but the faithless desire the fruit of violence.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread gained by deceit tastes sweet to a person, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!”

Isaiah 5:18

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

Isaiah 5:20

Those who call evil good and good evil are as good as dead, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.

Jeremiah 9:4

Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him.

Micah 3:5

This is what the Lord says: “The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him.

Micah 6:12

The city’s rich men think nothing of resorting to violence; her inhabitants lie, their tongues speak deceptive words.

Micah 7:3

They are determined to be experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men make demands, and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.