Proverbs 4:17

New International Version

They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on the Lord.

Proverbs 13:2

From the fruit of their lips people enjoy good things, but the unfaithful have an appetite for violence.

Proverbs 20:17

Food gained by fraud tastes sweet, but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.

Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!”

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes,

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Jeremiah 9:4

“Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer.

Micah 3:5

This is what the Lord says: “As for the prophets who lead my people astray, they proclaim ‘peace’ if they have something to eat, but prepare to wage war against anyone who refuses to feed them.

Micah 6:12

Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are skilled in doing evil; the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, the powerful dictate what they desire— they all conspire together.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.