Give us today our daily bread.
Parallel translations
- KJV Give us this day our daily bread.
- BSB Give us this day our daily bread.
- ESV Give us this day our daily bread,
- NKJV Give us this day our daily bread.
- NASB ‘Give us this day our daily bread.
- NLT Give us today the food we need,
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Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 30:8Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
- Luke 11:3Give us day by day our daily bread.
- Matt 4:4But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”
- Ps 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
- John 6:31–59Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”
- Job 23:12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- Ps 33:18–19Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;
- Isa 33:16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
- 1 Tim 6:8But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
- Exod 16:16–35This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: “Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.”
- 2 Th 3:12Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
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