Proverbs 4:16-18 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

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.

— Proverbs 4:16-18

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