Proverbs 4:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:4 : 4 Hee imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed: he setteth himselfe vpon a way, that is not good, and doeth not abhorre euill.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Wo vnto them, that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it because their hande hath power.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.
  • Isa 57:20 : 20 But the wicked are like the raging sea, that can not rest, whose waters cast vp myre and dirt.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Hauing eyes full of adulterie, and that can not cease to sinne, beguiling vnstable soules: they haue heartes exercised with couetousnesse, they are the children of curse:
  • Luke 22:66 : 66 And assoone as it was day, the Elders of the people, and the hie Priests and the Scribes came together, and led him into their councill,
  • John 18:28 : 28 Then led they Iesus from Caiaphas into the common hall. Nowe it was morning, & they themselues went not into the common hall, least they should be defiled, but that they might eate the Passeouer.

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