Proverbs 4:16

The Passion Translation

For troublemakers are restless if they are not involved in evil. They are not satisfied until they have brought someone harm.

Cross References

Psalm 36:3

Their wicked words are nothing but lies. Wisdom is far from them. Goodness is both forgotten and forsaken.

Psalm 36:4

They lie awake at night to hatch their evil plots, always planning their schemes of darkness, and never once do they consider the evil of their ways.

Proverbs 1:16

For crime is their way of life and bloodshed their specialty.

Proverbs 2:14

They take pleasure when evil prospers and thoroughly enjoy a lifestyle of sin.

Proverbs 4:15

Stay away from it; don’t even go there!

Isaiah 57:20

“But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, whose restless waves are never still, stirring up mud and mire.

Jeremiah 9:4

Beware of your neighbor and do not even trust your brother, for every brother is a cheater, and every friend is a slanderer.

Luke 22:66

At daybreak the high priests, the experts of the law, and the top religious leaders convened and had Jesus brought before their council.

John 18:28

Before dawn they took Jesus from his trial before Caiaphas to the Roman governor’s palace. Now the Jews refused to go into the Roman governor’s residence to avoid ceremonial defilement before eating the Passover meal.

Acts 24:7

but Commander Lysias came with great force, snatched him away from our hands, and sent him here to you.

2 Peter 2:14

They are addicted to adultery, with eyes that are insatiable, with sins that never end. They seduce the vulnerable and are experts in their greed—they are but children of a curse!