Proverbs 4:16
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 36:4 : 4 He deviseth mischief 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 make haste to shed blood.
- Isa 57:20 : 20 But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
- 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
- Luke 22:66 : 66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
- John 18:28 : 28 ¶ Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
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17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
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16 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17 For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.
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15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
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7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
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15 ¶ Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
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2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
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4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.
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15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:
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11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
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7 ¶ The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
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20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.
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33 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
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5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
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2 Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.
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32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
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19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
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