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Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.(Proverbs 4:14)
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.(Proverbs 4:15)
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.(Proverbs 4:16)
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.(Proverbs 4:18)
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.(Proverbs 4:19)
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.(Proverbs 4:20)

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Proverbs 4:17 - Cross Reference

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. (Proverbs 9:17)
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. (Matthew 23:13)
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. (Proverbs 20:17)
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. (Ezekiel 22:25)
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 24:5)
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. (Micah 3:5)
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. (Zephaniah 3:3)
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. (Jeremiah 5:26)
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. (Micah 6:12)
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD. (Psalm 14:4)
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. (James 5:4)
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, (Amos 8:4)