Proverbs 4:17

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 14:4

“Will evildoers never understand— those who consume My people as they eat bread— and never call on Adonai?”

Proverbs 13:2

From the fruit of a man’s mouth he enjoys good things, but the treacherous crave violence.

Proverbs 20:17

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

Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen water is sweet and bread eaten in secret is delicious!”

Isaiah 5:18

Oy to those that drag iniquity along with cords of deceit, and sin as if with a cart rope!

Isaiah 5:20

Oy to those who call evil good and good evil, who present darkness as light and light as darkness, who present bitter as sweet, and sweet as bitter!

Jeremiah 9:4

Everyone deceives his neighbor and does not speak the truth. They taught their tongue to speak lies. They wear themselves out doing wrong.

Micah 3:5

Thus said Adonai about the prophets who are misleading My people, those who bite with their teeth and cry “Shalom”—a word that He did not put in their mouth— yet they consecrate war against him:

Micah 6:12

For the rich of the city are full of violence and its inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue in their mouth is deceit.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are diligent at doing evil. The official and the judge ask for a bribe. The distinguished man utters a desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are wolves of the night, leaving nothing but bones for morning.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not enter yourselves, nor do you let those enter who are trying to go in.