Bible Cross References
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 9:17
"Stolen water is sweet, And bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant."
Proverbs 20:17
Bread gained by deceit [is] sweet to a man, But afterward his mouth will 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] children.
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 no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And do not call on the LORD?
Jeremiah 5:26-28
26
'For among My people are found wicked [men;] They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men.
27
As a cage is full of birds, So their houses [are] full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.
28
They have grown fat, they are sleek; Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the fatherless; Yet they prosper, And the right of the needy they do not defend.
Ezekiel 22:25-29
25
"The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured people; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
26
"Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known [the difference] between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
27
"Her princes in her midst [are] like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain.
28
"Her prophets plastered them with untempered [mortar,] seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,' when the LORD had not spoken.
29
"The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger.
Amos 8:4-6
4
Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, And make the poor of the land fail,
5
Saying: "When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit,
6
That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals -- Even sell the bad wheat?"
Micah 3:5
Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets Who make my people stray; Who chant "Peace" While they chew with their teeth, But who prepare war against him Who puts nothing into their mouths:
Micah 6:12
For her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants have spoken lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes in her midst [are] roaring lions; Her judges [are] evening wolves That leave not a bone till 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 greater condemnation.
James 5:4
Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
James 5:5
You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.