Bible Cross References
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 9:17
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Job 24:5
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, searching for food. The wilderness yields food for them and for their young.
Job 24:6
They gather their fodder in the field and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
Psalm 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called upon Jehovah.
Jeremiah 5:26-28
26
For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.
28
They have grown fat, they gleam. Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; they do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.
Ezekiel 22:25-29
25
The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
26
Her priests have violated My Law and defiled My holy things; they have not divided between the holy and profane, nor have they declared between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
27
Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, and to get dishonest gain.
28
Her prophets plastered them with whitewash, seeing vain visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah has not spoken.
29
The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the sojourner.
Amos 8:4-6
4
Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, and make the poor of the land to fail,
5
saying, When will the new moon have passed, so that we may buy grain? Or the sabbath, so that we may open the wheat; making the ephah smaller, and making the shekel greater, and falsifying the balances by deceit,
6
in order to buy the poor with silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Micah 3:5
Thus says Jehovah concerning the prophets who mislead My people, who bite with their teeth and call out, Peace! And whoever does not put anything into their mouth, they even prepare a war against him.
Micah 6:12
For her rich ones are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that do not leave the bones till the morning.
Matthew 23:14
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive more abundant condemnation.
James 5:4
Indeed the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
James 5:5
You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.