Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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
General references
Bible References
Remove
Proverbs 21:6
Wealth acquired by lying is fleeting vapor and a deadly pursuit.
Proverbs 22:8
He who sows unrighteousness will reap vanity. The rod of his anger will fail.
Proverbs 23:5
Will you look for things that do not exist? Riches grow wings and fly away like a bird.
Psalm 62:9
Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
Psalm 119:29
Remove the false way from me, and graciously grant me your law.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Isaiah 5:18
Woe to those who scatter sin with cords of falsehood and iniquity with a cart rope!
Isaiah 59:4
No one calls for justice and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
John 2:8
Draw some out, he said, and take it to the master of the feast. So they drew some out.
Acts 14:15
They said: Sirs, why do you do these things? We are only men like you. We bring you good news. You should turn from these worthless things to the living God. He is the God who made heaven and earth, the sea and all things.
Feed
Genesis 28:20
Jacob made a vow. He said: If God will be with me and will watch over me on my trip and give me food to eat and clothes to wear,
Genesis 48:15
Jacob blessed Joseph. He said: May God, in whose presence my grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac walked, may this God who has been my shepherd all my life to this very day,
Exodus 16:15
When the children of Israel saw, they said to one another: What is this? For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them: This is the bread Jehovah has given you to eat.
Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our daily bread. (Matthew 6:34) (1 Timothy 6:8) (Proverbs 30:8) (Psalm 37:25)
Luke 11:3
Give us day-by-day our daily bread.
1 Timothy 6:6
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
Convenient for me
2 Kings 25:30
The king gave him a regular amount of food every day for the rest of his life.
Jeremiah 37:21
King Zedekiah gave the command to have Jeremiah put in the courtyard of the prison. He gave him a loaf of bread every day from the bakers' street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the prison.
Jeremiah 52:34
The king of Babylon gave him a daily food allowance as long as he lived.
General references
Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our daily bread. (Matthew 6:34) (1 Timothy 6:8) (Proverbs 30:8) (Psalm 37:25)
1 Timothy 6:8
We should be content with having food and covering.