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 6:6–8But godliness with contentment is great gain.
• Ps 62:9–10Surely 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.
• Ps 119:37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
• Matt 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
• Luke 11:3Give us day by day our daily bread.
• Ps 119:29Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
• Job 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• Prov 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
• Matt 6:11Give us this day our daily bread.
• 2 Kgs 25:30And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
• Prov 22:8He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
• Exod 16:35And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
• Acts 14:15And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
• Exod 16:15And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
• Eccl 1:2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
• Jer 37:21Then 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 bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
• Isa 5:18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
• Exod 16:21–22And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
• Jer 52:34And for his diet, 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.
• Gen 48:15–16And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
• Exod 16:18And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
• Prov 23:5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
• John 2:8And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
• Exod 16:29See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
• Gen 28:20And 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,
• Isa 59:4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

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