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 by them that seek death.

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

Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards 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 to 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 to them, Draw out now, and bear to the governor of the feast. And they bore it.

And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach to you, that ye should turn from these vanities to 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 raiment to put on,

And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long to 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 to 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 by 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 baker's street, until all the bread in the city should be consumed. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

And for his food 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, with these let us be content.