Deuteronomy 8:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses, and dwelt therein;

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  • Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest I be full and deny You, and say, Who is the LORD? Or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
  • Deut 28:47 : 47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you have grown fat, you have grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
  • Deut 31:20 : 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
  • Eccl 2:4 : 4 I made great works; I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.
  • Jer 22:14-15 : 14 Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 15 Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
  • Ezek 11:3 : 3 Who say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.
  • Hos 13:5-6 : 5 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
  • Hag 1:4 : 4 Is it time for you, yourselves, to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins?
  • Luke 17:28 : 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

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  • Deut 8:13-14
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    13And when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

    14Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

  • Deut 6:10-12
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    84%

    10And it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and good cities, which you did not build,

    11And houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and wells dug, which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant; when you have eaten and are full;

    12Then beware, lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

  • Deut 8:9-11
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    9A land where you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

    10When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.

    11Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

  • Exod 34:12
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    12Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

  • Prov 5:10
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    10Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

  • Deut 8:17-19
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    17And you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

    18But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

    19And it shall be, if you do at all forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

  • Deut 12:18-20
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    18But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hands to.

    19Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the earth.

    20When the LORD your God enlarges your border, as He has promised you, and you say, I want to eat meat, because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, whatever your soul desires.

  • Deut 12:7
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    7And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all to which you put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Jer 29:5
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    5Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.

  • Deut 12:28-30
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    28Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

    29When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go to dispossess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land;

    30Take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you do not enquire after their gods, asking, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.

  • Deut 19:1
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    1When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and houses;

  • Josh 24:13
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    13And I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat from vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant.

  • Deut 28:8
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    8The LORD shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouses, and in all that you set your hand unto; and He shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • Deut 11:16-17
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    16Take heed to yourselves, that your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and worship them;

    17And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and He shuts up the heaven, so there is no rain, and the land yields no fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.

  • Deut 26:1
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    1And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell in it;

  • Deut 22:8
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    8When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you bring not blood upon your house if any man falls from it.

  • Deut 8:1
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    1All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.

  • Deut 28:11
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    11And the LORD shall make you plentiful in goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give you.

  • Deut 12:9-10
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    9For you have not yet come to the rest and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.

    10But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and when He gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you live in safety;

  • Exod 34:15
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    15Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

  • Deut 28:2
    72%

    2And all these blessings shall come upon you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

  • Neh 9:25
    72%

    25And they captured fortified cities and a fertile land, and took possession of houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat, and delighted themselves in Your great goodness.

  • Deut 28:30
    72%

    30You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • Ps 128:2
    72%

    2For you shall eat the labor of your hands; happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

  • Prov 30:9
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    9Lest I be full and deny You, and say, Who is the LORD? Or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

  • Hab 2:9
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    9Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

  • Lev 25:19
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    19And the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

  • Luke 12:19
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    19And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your rest, eat, drink, and be merry.

  • Deut 15:4-5
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    4Except when there are no poor among you; for the LORD will greatly bless you in the land the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it.

    5Only if you carefully listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command you this day.

  • Deut 4:25
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    25When you beget children, and children's children, and have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image, or the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger:

  • Deut 4:23
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    23Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, or the likeness of anything, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

  • Deut 11:8
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    8Therefore, you shall keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you go to possess;

  • Deut 6:18
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    18And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,

  • Deut 13:18
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    18When you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.