Proverbs 30:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

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  • Matt 6:11 : 11 Give us this day bread for our needs.
  • Luke 11:3 : 3 Give us every day bread for our needs.
  • 1 Tim 6:6-8 : 6 But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit: 7 For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out; 8 But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.
  • Ps 62:9-9 : 9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath. 10 Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
  • Ps 119:29 : 29 Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
  • Prov 21:6 : 6 He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
  • Prov 22:8 : 8 By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
  • Gen 28:20 : 20 Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on,
  • Gen 48:15-16 : 15 And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day, 16 The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.
  • Exod 16:15 : 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food.
  • Exod 16:18 : 18 And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had nothing over, and he who had little had enough; every man had taken what he was able to make use of.
  • Exod 16:21-22 : 21 And they took it up morning by morning, every man as he had need: and when the sun was high it was gone. 22 And on the sixth day they took up twice as much of the bread, two omers for every person: and all the rulers of the people gave Moses word of it.
  • Exod 16:29 : 29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
  • Exod 16:35 : 35 And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.
  • 2 Kgs 25:30 : 30 And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.
  • Job 23:12 : 12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
  • John 2:8 : 8 Then he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So they took it to him.
  • Acts 14:15 : 15 Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
  • Jer 37:21 : 21 Then by the order of Zedekiah the king, Jeremiah was put into the place of the armed watchmen, and they gave him every day a cake of bread from the street of the bread-makers, till all the bread in the town was used up. So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.
  • Jer 52:34 : 34 And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

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