Proverbs 30:8

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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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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 vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.

He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

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.

Remove from me the way of falsehood, and grant me thy law graciously.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope,

No man sues in righteousness, and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

And he says to them, Draw out now, and carry to the feast-ruler. And they carried.

and saying, Men, why are ye doing these things? We also are men of like nature with you, proclaiming good-news to you, to turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all the thi

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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 raiment to put on,

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

And when the sons of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? For they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which LORD has given you to eat.

Give us this day the bread sufficient for us.

Give us our bread sufficient for each day.

But piety with contentment is great gain,

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and for his allowance. There was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. And they gave him a loaf of bread daily out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the

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.

General references

Give us this day the bread sufficient for us.

but having food and covering we will be content with these.