Proverbs 20:17

Bishops' Bible (1568)

A man liketh the bread that is gotten with deceipt: but at the last his mouth shalbe filled with grauell.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 9:17-18 : 17 Stolen waters are sweete, & the bread that is priuily eaten, hath a good taste. 18 And he doth not consider that they are but dead whiche be there, and that her ghestes are in the deepe of hell.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Be glad then (O thou young man) in thy youth, and let thy heart be merie in thy young dayes, folowe the wayes of thyne owne heart, and the lust of thyne eyes, but be thou sure that God shall bryng thee into iudgement for all these thinges.
  • Lam 3:15-16 : 15 He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke. 16 He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust.
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 Chosyng rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioye the pleasures of sinne for a season:
  • Gen 3:6-7 : 6 And so the woman, seing that the same tree was good to eate of, and pleasaunt to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, toke of the fruite therof, and dyd eate, and gaue also vnto her husbande beyng with her, and he dyd eate. 7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knewe that they were naked, and they sowed fygge leaues together, & made them selues apernes.
  • Job 20:12-20 : 12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, he hyd it vnder his tongue. 13 That he fauoured, that would he not forsake, but kept it close in his throte. 14 The bread that he did eate, is turned to the poyson of serpentes within his bodye. 15 The riches that he deuoured shall he parbreake againe: for God shall drawe them out of his belly. 16 He shall sucke the gall of serpentes, and the adders tongue shall slay him: 17 So that he shall no more see the ryuers and brookes of hony and butter. 18 The thing he hath laboured for, shall he restore, and shall not eate of it: great trauaile shall he make for riches, but he shall not enioy them. 19 And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them. 20 Because he could not perceaue when his belly was well, through his greedie desire he shall not escape.
  • Prov 4:17 : 17 For they eate the bread of wickednes, and drinke the wine of robberie.

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%

    17Stolen waters are sweete, & the bread that is priuily eaten, hath a good taste.

  • Prov 23:3
    75%

    3Be not desirous of his daintie meates, for meate begyleth and deceaueth.

  • Job 20:12-14
    3 verses
    75%

    12When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, he hyd it vnder his tongue.

    13That he fauoured, that would he not forsake, but kept it close in his throte.

    14The bread that he did eate, is turned to the poyson of serpentes within his bodye.

  • Prov 27:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6Faythfull are the woundes of a louer: but the kysses of an enemie are cruell.

    7He that is full, abhorreth an honye combe: but vnto hym that is hungrye, euery sowre thing is sweete.

  • Prov 23:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6Eate thou not the bread of hym that hath an euyll eye: neither desire thou his daintie meate.

    7For as though he thought it in his heart, he saith, eate and drinke: where as his heart is not with thee.

    8The morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou parbreake, and loose those sweete wordes.

  • Prov 20:14-16
    3 verses
    72%

    14It is naught, it is naught (saith he that byeth): but when he commeth to his owne house, then he boasteth of his peny worth.

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

    16Take his garment that is suretie for a straunger: and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake.

  • Prov 18:20
    71%

    20A mans belly shalbe satisfied with the fruite of his owne mouth, and with the encrease of his lippes shall he be filled.

  • Prov 13:2
    71%

    2Of the fruite of a wise mans mouth shall eche man eate good thynges: but the wicked shall eate of the fruite of the transgressours.

  • Prov 12:14
    70%

    14Man shalbe satisfied with good thinges: by the fruite of his mouth, and after the workes of his handes shall he be rewarded.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eate the bread of wickednes, and drinke the wine of robberie.

  • Prov 20:18
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    18Thorowe counsayle, the thinges that men deuise are made strong: and with good aduise take warre in hande.

  • Prov 25:16
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    16If thou findest honie, eate so muche as is sufficient for thee: lest thou be ouer full, and parbreake it out agayne.

  • Prov 20:25
    70%

    25It is a snare for a man to deuour that whiche is holy, and after the vowe to make inquirie.

  • Prov 6:26
    70%

    26By an harlot a man is brought to beg his bread, and a woman wyll hunte for the pretious life of man.

  • Prov 24:13
    70%

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

  • Prov 29:5
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    5Who so flattereth his neighbour, layeth a net for his feete.

  • Prov 17:23
    69%

    23The vngodly taketh gyftes out of the bosome, to wrest the wayes of iudgement.

  • Obad 1:7
    69%

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

  • Ps 50:19
    69%

    19Thou hast let thy mouth speake wickednesse: and with thy tongue thou hast set foorth deceipt.

  • Prov 21:6
    69%

    6To hoorde vp riches with a deceiptfull tongue, is vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.

  • Prov 30:20
    69%

    20Such is the way also of a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke, which wypeth her mouth lyke as when she hath eaten, and sayth, as for me I haue done no wickednesse.

  • Prov 26:27-28
    2 verses
    69%

    27Who so diggeth vp a pit, shal fall therin: and he that rolleth vp a stone, it wyl returne vpon hym.

    28A lying tongue hateth the afflicted: and a flattering mouth worketh mischiefe.

  • Prov 28:21
    69%

    21To haue respect of persons in iudgement is not good, for that man wyll do wrong, yea euen for a peece of bread.

  • Ps 10:7
    69%

    7His mouth is full of cursing, and of deceate, and of fraude: vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe.

  • Prov 12:20
    69%

    20Deceipt is in the heart of them that imagine euyll: but to the counsaylers of peace shalbe ioy.

  • Ps 36:3
    68%

    3The wordes of his mouth are vnrighteous and full of deceipt: he hath left of to behaue him selfe wisely & to do good.

  • Prov 28:19
    68%

    19He that tylleth his lande shall haue plenteousnes of bread: but he that foloweth idle persons, shall haue pouertie inough.

  • Prov 17:20
    68%

    20Who so hath a frowarde heart, obteyneth no good: and he that hath a double tongue, shall fall into mischiefe.

  • Job 33:20
    68%

    20So that his lyfe may away with no bread, and his soule abhorreth to eate any dayntie meate:

  • Prov 6:30
    68%

    30Men do not vtterly despise a thiefe that stealeth to satisfie his soule, when he is hungrie:

  • Prov 16:26
    68%

    26A troublous soule disquieteth her selfe, for her owne mouth hath brought her therto.

  • Prov 26:19
    68%

    19So doth a dissembler with his neighbour, and saith, am not I in sport?

  • Prov 12:11
    68%

    11He that tylleth his lande, shall haue plenteousnesse of bread: but he that foloweth idlenesse is a very foole.

  • Ps 55:21
    67%

    21The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.

  • Ezek 4:17
    67%

    17That they may cause a lacke of bread and water, and be astonied one at another, and be consumed in their iniquitie.

  • Prov 5:4
    67%

    4But at the laste she is as bitter as wormewood, and as sharpe as a two edged sworde.

  • Mic 6:12
    67%

    12For the riche men thereof are full of crueltie, and the inhabitantes thereof haue spoken lyes, and haue deceitfull tongues in their mouthes.

  • Prov 25:19
    67%

    19The confidence that is put in an vnfaythfull man in tyme of trouble, is like a broken tooth, and a sliding foote.

  • Job 20:18
    67%

    18The thing he hath laboured for, shall he restore, and shall not eate of it: great trauaile shall he make for riches, but he shall not enioy them.

  • Eccl 6:7
    67%

    7All the labour that a man taketh, is for him selfe, and yet his desire is neuer fylled after his mynde.

  • Job 20:20
    67%

    20Because he could not perceaue when his belly was well, through his greedie desire he shall not escape.

  • Isa 44:20
    67%

    20Thus doth he but lose his labour, and his heart whiche is deceaued doth turne hym aside, so that none of them can haue a free conscience to thinke, Do not I erre?