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 them that seek death.

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

Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously.

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

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

None calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth: they trust in empty words, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

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

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

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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 did walk, the God who fed me all my life long unto this day,

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they knew not what it was. And 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 godliness with contentment is great gain.

Convenient for me

And his allowance was a regular allowance given him from the king, a daily portion for every day, all the days of his life.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

And for his provision, there was a regular ration given him from 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 our daily bread.

And having food and clothing let us be with these things content.