Proverbs 20:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 9:17-18 : 17 Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Reioyce, O yong man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth: and walke in the waies of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but knowe that for all these things, God wil bring thee to iudgement.
  • Lam 3:15-16 : 15 He hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 And chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioy the pleasures of sinnes for a season,
  • Gen 3:6-7 : 6 So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, & gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate. 7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knewe that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaues together, and made them selues breeches.
  • Job 20:12-20 : 12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue, 13 And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth, 14 Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him. 15 He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie. 16 He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him. 17 He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter. 18 He shal restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, & he shal enioy it no more. 19 For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not. 20 Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.
  • Prov 4:17 : 17 For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 9:17
    78%

    17Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.

  • Prov 23:3
    75%

    3Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.

  • Job 20:12-14
    3 verses
    75%

    12When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

    13And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

    14Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

  • Prov 27:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6The wounds of a louer are faithful, and the kisses of an enemie are pleasant.

    7The person that is full, despiseth an hony combe: but vnto the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.

  • Prov 23:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.

    7For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee.

    8Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.

  • Prov 20:14-16
    3 verses
    72%

    14It is naught, it is naught, sayth the buyer: but when he is gone apart, he boasteth.

    15There is golde, and a multitude of precious stones: but the lips of knowledge are a precious iewel.

    16Take his garment, that is suretie for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.

  • Prov 18:20
    71%

    20With the fruite of a mans mouth shall his belly be satisfied, and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

  • Prov 13:2
    71%

    2A man shall eate good things by the fruite of his mouth: but the soule of the trespassers shall suffer violence.

  • Prov 12:14
    70%

    14A man shalbe satiate with good things by the fruite of his mouth, and the recompence of a mans hands shall God giue vnto him.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.

  • Prov 20:18
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    18Establish the thoughtes by counsell: and by counsell make warre.

  • Prov 25:16
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    16If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, & vomit it.

  • Prov 20:25
    70%

    25It is a destruction for a man to deuoure that which is sanctified, and after the vowes to inquire.

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.

  • Prov 24:13
    70%

    13My sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.

  • Prov 29:5
    70%

    5A man that flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth a net for his steps.

  • Prov 17:23
    69%

    23A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosome to wrest the wayes of iudgement.

  • Obad 1:7
    69%

    7All the men of thy confederacie haue driuen thee to ye borders: the men that were at peace with thee, haue deceiued thee, and preuailed against thee: they that eate thy bread, haue laid a wound vnder thee: there is none vnderstanding in him.

  • Ps 50:19
    69%

    19Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

  • Prov 21:6
    69%

    6The gathering of treasures by a deceitfull tongue is vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.

  • Prov 30:20
    69%

    20Such is ye way also of an adulterous woman: she eateth and wipeth her mouth, and sayth, I haue not committed iniquitie.

  • Prov 26:27-28
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    27He that diggeth a pit shal fall therein, and he that rolleth a stone, it shall returne vnto him.

    28A false tongue hateth the afflicted, and a flattering mouth causeth ruine.

  • Prov 28:21
    69%

    21To haue respect of persons is not good: for that man will transgresse for a piece of bread.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

  • Prov 12:20
    69%

    20Deceite is in the heart of them that imagine euill: but to the counsellers of peace shall be ioye.

  • Ps 36:3
    68%

    3The wordes of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: hee hath left off to vnderstand and to doe good.

  • Prov 28:19
    68%

    19He that tilleth his land, shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth the idle, shall be filled with pouertie.

  • Prov 17:20
    68%

    20The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.

  • Job 33:20
    68%

    20So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate.

  • Prov 6:30
    68%

    30Men do not despise a thiefe, when he stealeth, to satisfie his soule, because he is hungrie.

  • Prov 16:26
    68%

    26The person that traueileth, traueileth for himselfe: for his mouth craueth it of him.

  • Prov 26:19
    68%

    19So dealeth the deceitfull man with his friend and sayth, Am not I in sport?

  • Prov 12:11
    68%

    11He that tilleth his lande, shalbe satisfied with bread: but he that followeth the idle, is destitute of vnderstanding.

  • Ps 55:21
    67%

    21The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.

  • Ezek 4:17
    67%

    17Because that bread and water shall faile, they shalbe astonied one with another, and shall consume away for their iniquitie.

  • Prov 5:4
    67%

    4But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

  • Mic 6:12
    67%

    12For the rich men thereof are full of crueltie, & the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lyes, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.

  • Prov 25:19
    67%

    19Confidence in an vnfaythfull man in time of trouble, is like a broken tooth and a sliding foote.

  • Job 20:18
    67%

    18He shal restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, & he shal enioy it no more.

  • Eccl 6:7
    67%

    7All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.

  • Job 20:20
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    20Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.

  • Isa 44:20
    67%

    20He feedeth of ashes: a seduced heart hath deceiued him, that he cannot deliuer his soule, nor say, Is there not a lye in my right hand?