Proverbs 30:8

American Standard Version (1901)

Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 6:11 : 11 Give us this day our daily bread.
  • Luke 11:3 : 3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
  • 1 Tim 6:6-8 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain: 7 for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out; 8 but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.
  • Ps 62:9-9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity. 10 Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart [thereon] .
  • Ps 119:29 : 29 Remove from me the way of falsehood; And grant me thy law graciously.
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.
  • Prov 21:6 : 6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.
  • Prov 22:8 : 8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;
  • Gen 28:20 : 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
  • Gen 48:15-16 : 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long unto this day, 16 the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
  • Exod 16:15 : 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat.
  • Exod 16:18 : 18 And when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
  • Exod 16:21-22 : 21 And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. 22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
  • Exod 16:29 : 29 See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
  • Exod 16:35 : 35 And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
  • 2 Kgs 25:30 : 30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
  • Job 23:12 : 12 I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
  • John 2:8 : 8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the ruler of the feast. And they bare it.
  • Acts 14:15 : 15 and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
  • Jer 37:21 : 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
  • Jer 52:34 : 34 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 9 Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of my God.

  • 7 Two things have I asked of thee; Deny me [them] not before I die:

  • 4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To practise deeds of wickedness With men that work iniquity: And let me not eat of their dainties.

  • Prov 23:2-4
    3 verses
    73%

    2 And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

    3 Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.

    4 Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.

  • 29 Remove from me the way of falsehood; And grant me thy law graciously.

  • Ps 119:36-37
    2 verses
    72%

    36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, And not to covetousness.

    37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

  • 8 but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.

  • 22 Did I say, Give unto me? Or, Offer a present for me of your substance?

  • 3 Give us day by day our daily bread.

  • 11 Give us this day our daily bread.

  • 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:

  • Job 13:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20 Only do not two things unto me; Then will I not hide myself from thy face:

    21 Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror make me afraid.

  • 1 [A Song of Ascents; of David]. Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me.

  • 16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • 17 and [lest] thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.

  • 11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.

  • 12 I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

  • 21 Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me.

  • 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.

  • 16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

  • 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.

  • 17 Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

  • 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

  • 23 that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

  • 5 Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

  • 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

  • 10 Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart [thereon] .

  • 2 a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

  • 1 [A Psalm of David]. Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want.

  • 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

  • 15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

  • 12 lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

  • 30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:

  • 10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

  • 24 O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure: not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

  • 18 Riches and honor are with me; [Yea], durable wealth and righteousness.

  • 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth.

  • 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah; Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

  • 8 Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

  • 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.

  • Job 32:21-22
    2 verses
    68%

    21 Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person; Neither will I give flattering titles unto any man.

    22 For I know not to give flattering titles; [Else] would my Maker soon take me away.

  • 25 Whom have I in heaven [but thee] ? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.

  • 31 Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

  • 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

  • 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.