Bible Cross References
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 9:17
Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.
Proverbs 20:17
[This translation omits this verse.]
Job 24:5
And they have departed like donkeys in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order. His bread is sweet to His little ones.
Job 24:6
They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time; the poor have labored in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.
Psalm 14:4
Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? They have not called upon the Lord.
Jeremiah 5:26-28
26
For among My people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught [them].
27
As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich.
28
They have transgressed [the rule of] judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.
Ezekiel 22:25-29
25
whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and your widows are multiplied in the midst of you.
26
Her priests also have set at nought My law, and profaned My holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
27
Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.
28
And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus says the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken.
29
That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.
Amos 8:4-6
4
Hear now this, you that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,
5
saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?
6
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.
Micah 3:5
Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that lead My people astray, that bite with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and [when] nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:
Micah 6:12
whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?
Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morning.
Matthew 23:14
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
James 5:4
Indeed, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which were kept back by you, cry out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
James 5:5
You lived luxuriously upon the earth and you lived riotously, you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.