Deuteronomy 8:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

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  • Prov 30:9 : 9 For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.
  • Deut 28:47 : 47 Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.
  • Deut 31:20 : 20 For when I have taken them into the land named in my oath to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they have made themselves full of food and are fat, then they will be turned to other gods and will give them worship, no longer honouring me or keeping my agreement.
  • Eccl 2:4 : 4 I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
  • Jer 22:14-15 : 14 Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red. 15 Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
  • Ezek 11:3 : 3 Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this town is the cooking-pot and we are the flesh.
  • Hos 13:5-6 : 5 I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was. 6 When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
  • Hag 1:4 : 4 Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
  • Luke 17:28 : 28 In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

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    13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;

    14 Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;

  • Deut 6:10-12
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    10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

    11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

    12 Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

  • Deut 8:9-11
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    9 Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

    10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

    11 Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

  • Exod 34:12
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    12 But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

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    10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

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    17 Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.

    18 But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.

    19 And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.

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    18 But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

    19 See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

    20 When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

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    7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Jer 29:5
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    5 Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;

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    28 Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

    29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

    30 After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

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    8 The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

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    16 But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;

    17 For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

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    8 If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.

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    1 Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.

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    11 And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

  • Deut 12:9-10
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    9 For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

    10 But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as your heritage, and when he has given you rest from all those on every side who are fighting against you, and you are living there safely;

  • Exod 34:15
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    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

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    2 And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God.

  • Neh 9:25
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    25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

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    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

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    2 You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

  • Prov 30:9
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    9 For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

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    19 And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

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    19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

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    4 But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;

    5 If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.

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    25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

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    18 So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.