Deuteronomy 8:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.””
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“You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and lest thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and thou hast said in thy heart, My power, and the might of my hand, hath made for me this wealth:”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 8:17 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 7:17You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
- Deuteronomy 9:4When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
- Judges 7:2Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
- 1 Samuel 30:23But David said, “My brothers, you must not do this with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders who came against us.
- Job 31:25if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
- Ecclesiastes 3:6a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard,
- Isaiah 10:8“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
- Jeremiah 9:22Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
- Ezekiel 28:5By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.
- Daniel 4:27Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
- Daniel 4:30the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
- Hosea 12:8And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
- Habakkuk 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.
- 1 Corinthians 4:7For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
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