Proverbs 20:17

Tree of Life Version

Bread gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is filled with gravel.

Cross References

Proverbs 20:16

Take a man’s garment, who puts up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge, as security for a foreign woman.

Proverbs 4:17

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

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, in your childhood, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

Hebrews 11:25

Instead he chose to suffer mistreatment along with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.