Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 20:17 — Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Phrase of Scripture   Correlating Passages TSK Help

deceit   Heb. lying, or falsehood. Pro 4:17
is sweet   Pro 9:17,18; Gen 3:6,7; Job 20:12-20; Ecc 11:9; Hbr 11:25
his   Lam 3:15,16
Correlating Passages
deceit
Pro 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
is sweet
Pro 9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
Pro 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Gen 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
Job 20:13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
Job 20:14 [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
Job 20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Job 20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
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Ecc 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.
Hbr 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
his
Lam 3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Lam 3:16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

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Scott, Thomas. "Proverbs 20:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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