Proverbs 30:8

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Summary

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

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Convenient for me

2 Kings 25:30

Jeremiah 37:21

Jeremiah 52:34

General references

Matthew 6:11

1 Timothy 6:8

Bible References

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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.

He that sows iniquity shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon riches which are not? For they shall certainly make themselves wings; they shall fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Surely the sons of Adam are vanity, and the sons of nobles are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Remove from me the way of lying, and from thy law grant me mercy.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Woe unto those that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope,

No one calls for righteousness, nor do any judge by the truth; they trust in vanity, and speak vanities; they conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity.

And he said unto them, Draw out now and bear unto the butler. And they bore it.

and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things that are therein,

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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 clothing to put on

And he blessed Joseph and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long unto this day,

And when the sons of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna (What is it?): for they did not know what it was. Then Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Give us day by day our daily bread.

But piety with contentment is great gain.

Convenient for me

And the king caused him to be given his food continually, each thing in its time, all the days of his life.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the guard and that they should give him daily a piece 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.

And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every thing in its day for all the days of his life, until the day of his death.

General references

Give us this day our daily bread.

So that, sustenance and covering, let us be content with this.