Proverbs 4:16

American Standard Version (1901)

For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:4 : 4 He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; He setteth himself in a way that is not good; He abhorreth not evil.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
  • Isa 57:20 : 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;
  • Luke 22:66 : 66 And as soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes; and they led him away into their council, saying,
  • John 18:28 : 28 They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Prov 1:16
    76%

    16For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

  • Job 24:13-14
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    13These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.

    14The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

  • Hos 7:6
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    6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

    17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Prov 4:15
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    15Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place:

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; He setteth himself in a way that is not good; He abhorreth not evil.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

  • Isa 59:7-8
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    7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

    8The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    15Their feet are swift to shed blood;

    16Destruction and misery are in their ways;

  • Prov 1:11
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    11If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

  • Job 4:13
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    13In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

    5They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?

  • Isa 17:14
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    14At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, Because they refuse to do justice.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33[ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

  • Ps 76:5
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    5The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

  • Prov 6:10
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    10[ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:

  • Ps 55:10
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    10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

  • Job 24:6
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    6They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?

  • Prov 2:14
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    14Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

  • Mic 7:3
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    30He that shutteth his eyes, [it is] to devise perverse things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.

  • Ps 127:2
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    2It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; [For] so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

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    25Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

  • Job 33:15
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    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;

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    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

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    14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

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    8According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same.

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    12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

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    17There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

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    26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.