Cross references
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 4:17 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 0 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 14:4 (3 votes) and Proverbs 9:17 (3 votes). 14 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 27 to James 5.
Which verses does Proverbs 4:17 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Psalm 14:43 votes
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- Proverbs 9:173 votes
“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
- Proverbs 20:173 votes
Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
- Micah 6:123 votes
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
- James 5:4–53 votes
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
- Job 24:5–62 votes
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children. They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
- Jeremiah 5:26–282 votes
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men. Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich. …
- Ezekiel 22:25–292 votes
The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her. Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. …
- Amos 8:4–62 votes
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales. …
- Micah 3:52 votes
This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
- Zephaniah 3:32 votes
- Matthew 23:132 votes
Which verses point to Proverbs 4:17?
The 10 strongest of 14.