Proverbs 4:17
Proverbs · Old Testament · Chapter 4
“For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.”Proverbs 4:17
What Does Proverbs 4:17 Mean?
Proverbs 4:17 is found in the book of Proverbs, chapter 4, verse 17 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 17 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (17)
These passages are connected to Proverbs 4:17 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Psalms 14:4“Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.”Proverbs 9:17“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”Proverbs 13:2“A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.”Proverbs 20:17“Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.”Micah 6:12“For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.”James 5:4“Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.”1 Samuel 20:24“So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.”1 Kings 21:15“And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”Job 24:5“Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.”Job 34:7“What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?”Psalms 73:6“Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.”Jeremiah 5:26“For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.”Ezekiel 22:25“There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.”Amos 8:4“Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,”Micah 3:5“Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.”Zephaniah 3:3“Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.”Matthew 23:13“But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.”
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