Proverbs 4:17

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

Cross References (12)

  • James 5:4–5 (3)

    Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvest

  • Micah 6:12 (3)

    For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mou

  • Proverbs 9:17 (3)

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

  • Psalms 14:4 (3)

    Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

  • Proverbs 20:17 (3)

    Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.

  • Micah 3:5 (2)

    This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with thei

  • Amos 8:4–6 (2)

    Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

  • Job 24:5–6 (2)

    Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children

  • Zephaniah 3:3 (2)

    Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.

  • Matthew 23:13 (2)

    Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not

  • Ezekiel 22:25–29 (2)

    The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the tr

  • Jeremiah 5:26–28 (2)

    For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.