Proverbs 30:8

A Prayer

⁷ Two things I ask from you; do not refuse me before I die: ⁸ Remove falsehood and lies far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion of bread, ⁹ lest I become satisfied and act deceptively and say, "Who is the Lord?" Or lest I become poor and steal and demean the name of my God.

Help Me

Neither Poverty Nor Riches

Matthew 6:11

Give us today our daily bread,

Luke 11:3

Give us each day our daily bread,

Genesis 28:20

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear,

Genesis 48:15-16

Then he blessed Joseph and said, "May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked -- the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,

Exodus 16:15

When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread that the Lord has given you for food.

Exodus 16:18

When they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.

Exodus 16:21-22

So they gathered it each morning, each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.

Exodus 16:29

See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

Exodus 16:35

Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

2 Kings 25:30

He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died.

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion.

Psalm 62:9-10

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

Psalm 119:29

Remove me from the path of deceit! Graciously give me your law!

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! Revive me with your word!

Proverbs 21:6

Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.

Proverbs 22:8

The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

Proverbs 23:5

When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!

Ecclesiastes 1:2

"Futile! Futile!" laments the Teacher, "Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!"

Isaiah 5:18

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

Isaiah 59:4

No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.

Jeremiah 37:21

Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread be given to him every day from the baker's street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Jeremiah 52:34

He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.

Matthew 6:33

But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

John 2:8

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the head steward," and they did.

Acts 14:15

"Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

1 Timothy 6:6-8

Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit.