Proverbs 4:17
"For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence."
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- 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."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 20:17
"Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 9:17
"Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Zephaniah 3:3
"Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow."
Read in chapter → - Amos 8:4
"Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,"
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - 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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