Proverbs 4:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

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

Proverbs 13:2

From the fruit of their words good persons eat good things, but the desire of the treacherous is for wrongdoing.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread gained by deceit is sweet, but afterward the mouth will be full of gravel.

Proverbs 9:17

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

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood, who drag sin along 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 neighbors, and put no trust in any of your kin, for all your kin are supplanters, and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.

Micah 3:5

Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat but declare war against those who put nothing into their mouths.

Micah 6:12

Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies with tongues of deceit in their mouths.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

Zephaniah 3:3

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.