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 vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

Wilt thou set thine 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: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

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

Vanity of vanities, saith 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 calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare 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, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all 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 raiment to put on,

And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which 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 wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath 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 continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate 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 were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of 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 raiment let us be therewith content.