Proverbs 30:8

Agur asks God to keep him from falsehood and to give him neither poverty nor riches, but just what he needs.

Cross-references · 26

• 1 Tim 6:6–8Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.
• Ps 62:9–10Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
• Ps 119:37Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.
• Matt 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
• Luke 11:3Give us each day our daily bread.
• Ps 119:29Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
• Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
• Prov 21:6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
• Matt 6:11Give us this day our daily bread.
• 2 Kgs 25:30And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.
• Prov 22:8He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
• Exod 16:35The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
• Acts 14:15“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.
• Exod 16:15When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
• Eccl 1:2“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
• Jer 37:21So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
• Isa 5:18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
• Exod 16:21–22Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
• Jer 52:34And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.
• Gen 48:15–16Then 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 to this day,
• Exod 16:18When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
• Prov 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
• John 2:8“Now draw some out,” He said, “and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so,
• Exod 16:29Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”
• Gen 28:20Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
• Isa 59:4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

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