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Proverbs 4:17

“For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.”

Proverbs 4:17 verse artwork: For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

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¹⁵Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.

¹⁶For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

¹⁷For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

¹⁸The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

¹⁹But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

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