Proverbs 4:17

For they eat bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

Job 24:5-6

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

Psalm 14:4

All those who behave wickedly do not understand -- those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord.

Proverbs 9:17

"Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!"

Proverbs 20:17

Bread gained by deceit tastes sweet to a person, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

Jeremiah 5:26-28

"Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.

Ezekiel 22:25-29

Her princes within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows within it.

Amos 8:4-6

Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

Micah 3:5

This is what the Lord says: "The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him.

Micah 6:12

The city's rich men think nothing of resorting to violence; her inhabitants lie, their tongues speak deceptive words.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.

Matthew 23:13

"But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

James 5:4-5

Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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