Bible Cross References
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
Genesis 28:20
Then Jacob made a vow to the LORD: "If you will be with me and protect me on the journey I am making and give me food and clothing,
Genesis 48:15
Then he blessed Joseph: "May God, whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac served, bless these boys! May God, who has led me to this very day, bless them!
Deuteronomy 2:7
"Remember how the LORD your God has blessed you in everything that you have done. He has taken care of you as you wandered through this vast desert. He has been with you these forty years, and you have had everything you needed.
Deuteronomy 8:3
He made you go hungry, and then he gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did this to teach you that you must not depend on bread alone to sustain you, but on everything that the LORD says.
Deuteronomy 8:4
During these forty years your clothes have not worn out, nor have your feet swollen up.
Proverbs 27:23-27
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Look after your sheep and cattle as carefully as you can,
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because wealth is not permanent. Not even nations last forever.
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You cut the hay and then cut the grass on the hillsides while the next crop of hay is growing.
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You can make clothes from the wool of your sheep and buy land with the money you get from selling some of your goats.
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The rest of the goats will provide milk for you and your family, and for your servant women as well.
Proverbs 30:8
keep me from lying, and let me be neither rich nor poor. So give me only as much food as I need.
Proverbs 30:9
If I have more, I might say that I do not need you. But if I am poor, I might steal and bring disgrace on my God.
Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
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The best thing we can do is eat and drink and enjoy what we have earned. And yet, I realized that even this comes from God.
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How else could you have anything to eat or enjoy yourself at all?
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God gives wisdom, knowledge, and happiness to those who please him, but he makes sinners work, earning and saving, so that what they get can be given to those who please him. It is all useless. It is like chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 3:12
So I realized that all we can do is be happy and do the best we can while we are still alive.
Ecclesiastes 3:13
All of us should eat and drink and enjoy what we have worked for. It is God's gift.
Matthew 6:11
Give us today the food we need.
Matthew 6:25-33
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"This is why I tell you: do not be worried about the food and drink you need in order to stay alive, or about clothes for your body. After all, isn't life worth more than food? And isn't the body worth more than clothes?
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Look at the birds: they do not plant seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns; yet your Father in heaven takes care of them! Aren't you worth much more than birds?
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Can any of you live a bit longer by worrying about it?
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"And why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow: they do not work or make clothes for themselves.
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But I tell you that not even King Solomon with all his wealth had clothes as beautiful as one of these flowers.
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It is God who clothes the wild grass---grass that is here today and gone tomorrow, burned up in the oven. Won't he be all the more sure to clothe you? What little faith you have!
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"So do not start worrying: 'Where will my food come from? or my drink? or my clothes?'
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(These are the things the pagans are always concerned about.) Your Father in heaven knows that you need all these things.
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Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.
Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, "I will never leave you; I will never abandon you."
Hebrews 13:6
Let us be bold, then, and say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?"