Proverbs 4:16

Coverdale Bible (1535)

For they can not slepe, excepte they haue first done some myschefe: nether take they eny rest, excepte they haue first done some harme.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:4 : 4 He ymagineth myschefe vpon his bedde, he will come in no good waye, ner refuse the thinge that is euell.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Wo vnto them, that ymagyn to do harme, and deuyse vngraciousnesse vpon their beddes, to perfourme it in ye cleare daye: for their power is agaynst God.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their fete rune to euell, & are haistie to shed bloude.
  • Isa 57:20 : 20 But the wicked are like the raginge see, that ca not rest, whose water fometh with the myre & grauel.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 hauynge eyes full of aduoutrye, and ca not ceasse from synne, entysinge vnstable soules: hauynge an hert exercysed wt couetousnes: they are cursed children,
  • Luke 22:66 : 66 And whan it was daye, there gathered together the Elders of the people, the hye prestes and scrybes, and led him vp before, their councell, and sayde:
  • John 18:28 : 28 Then led they Iesus from Caiphas in to the comon hall. And it was early in the mornynge. And they them selues wete not in to the como hall, lest they shulde be defyled, but yt they might eate ye Pascall lambe.

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  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eate the bred of wickednesse, and drike the wyne of robbery.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Wo vnto them, that ymagyn to do harme, and deuyse vngraciousnesse vpon their beddes, to perfourme it in ye cleare daye: for their power is agaynst God.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16For their fete rune to euell, & are haistie to shed bloude.

  • Job 24:13-14
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    13where as they (not wt stodinge) are rebellious and disobedient enemies: which seke not his light and waye, ner turne agayne in to his path.

    14Tymely in the mornynge do they aryse, to murthur the symple and poore, & in the night they go a stealinge.

  • Hos 7:6
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    6They with the ymaginacion of their herte are like an oue, their slepe is all ye night like the slepe of a baker, in the mornynge is he as hote as the flame of fyre:

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the night season they search the houses, and hyde them selues in the daye tyme, but wil not knowe ye light

    17For as soone as the daye breaketh, the shadowe of death commeth vpo them, and they go in horrible darcknesse.

  • Prov 4:15
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    15Eschue it, & go not therin: departe asyde, & passe ouer by it.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7For they that slepe, slepe in the nighte: and they that be dronken, are dronken in the nighte.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Laye no preuy waite wickedly vpon ye house of ye rightuous, & disquiete not his restinge place.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their herte ymagineth to do hurte, & their lippes talke of myschefe.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4let not thyne eyes slepe, ner thine eye lyddes slomber.

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He ymagineth myschefe vpon his bedde, he will come in no good waye, ner refuse the thinge that is euell.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18Yee they the selues laye wayte one for anothers bloude, and one of the wolde slaye another.

  • Isa 59:7-8
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    7Their fete runne to euell, & they make haist to shed innocet bloude. Their coucels are wicked coucels, harme & destruccio are in their wayes.

    8But ye waye of peace they knowe not. In their goinges is no equyte, their wayes are so croked, yt who so euer goeth therin, knoweth nothinge of peace.

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    15Their fete are swifte to shed bloude.

    16Destruccion & wrechidnes are in their wayes,

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11yf they entyse the, and saye: come wyth us, let us laye wayte for bloude, & lurke preuely for the innocet wythout a cause:

  • Job 4:13
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    13with a vision in the night, when men are fallen a slepe.

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4That they maye preuely hurte ye innocet, & sodely to hit him wt out eny feare.

    5They haue deuysed myschefe, and commoned amonge them selues, how they maye laye snares: tush (saye they) who shall se them?

  • Isa 17:14
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    14Though they be fearful at night, yet in the morninge it is gone with the, This is their porcion, that do vs harme, and heretage of them, that robbe vs.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruccion, for they wolde not do the thynge that was right.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20And why? their comonynge is not for peace, but they ymagin false wordes agaynst ye outcastes of the londe.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33Yee slepe on still a litle, slobre a litle, folde thine hodes together yet a litle:

  • Ps 76:5
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    5The proude shalbe robbed & slepe their slepe, & ye mightie shalbe able to do nothinge with their hodes.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2Which ymagin myschefe in their hertes, & stere vp strife all the daye longe.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The lawe of his God is in his hert, therfore shal not his fotesteppes slyde.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19But ye waye of the vngodly is as the darcknesse, wherin me fall, or they be awarre.

  • Prov 6:10
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    10Yee slepe on still a litle, slober a litle, folde thine handes together yet a litle, that thou mayest slepe:

  • Ps 55:10
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    10Wickednesse is therin, disceate and gyle go not out of hir stretes.

  • Job 24:6
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    6They reape the corne felde that is not their owne: and gather the grapes out of his vynyarde, whom they haue oppressed by violence.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For like as the thornes that sticke together, and as the drye strawe, so shal the dronckardes be consumed together, euen when they be full.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they inteded myschefe agaynst the, & ymagined soch deuyces, as they were not able to perfourme.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4Their mouth is full of cursinge and bytternes, their fete are swift to shed bloude. Destruccion & wretchednes are in their wayes, ad the waye of peace haue they not knowne: there is no feare off God before their eyes.

  • Prov 2:14
    72%

    14which reioyse in doynge euell, and delyte i wicked thinges:

  • Mic 7:3
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    3yet they saye they do well, when they do euell. As the prince wil, so sayeth the iudge: yt he maye do him a pleasure agayne. The greate ma speaketh what his herte desyreth, & ye hearers alowe him.

  • Prov 16:30
    71%

    30He that wyncketh wt his eyes, ymagineth myschefe: and he yt byteth his lippes, wyl do some harme.

  • Ps 127:2
    71%

    2Excepte the LORDE kepe the cite, the watchman waketh but in vayne.

  • Job 34:25
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    25For he knoweth their euell & darcke workes, therfore shal they be destroyed.

  • Job 33:15
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    15In dreames and visions of the night season (when slombrynge cometh vpo me, that they fall a slepe in their beddes)

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The vngodly drawe out the swerde & bende their bowe, to cast downe ye symple & poore, and to slaye soch as go ye right waye.

  • Job 5:14
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    14In so moch that they runne in to darcknesse by fayre daye, and grope aboute them at the noone daye, like as in the night.

  • Job 4:8
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    8As for those that plowe wickednesse (as I haue sene myself) and sowe myschefe, they reape ye same.

  • Eccl 5:12
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    12A labouringe man slepeth swetely, whether it be litle or moch that he eateth: but the abundaunce of the riche wil not suffre him to slepe.

  • Job 3:17
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    17There must the wicked ceasse from their tyranny, there soch as are ouerlaboured, be at rest:

  • Ps 28:3
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    3O plucke me not awaye amonge the vngodly and wicked doers, which speake frendly to their neghboure, but ymagin myschefe in their hertes.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26For amonge my people are founde wicked personnes, that priuely laye snares and waite for men, to take them, and destroye them.