Deuteronomy 8:16
Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;
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Deuteronomy 8:16
Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;
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Genesis 42:15
But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.
Genesis 42:16
Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.
Genesis 42:20
And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.
Genesis 43:32
And they put a meal ready for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who were with him by themselves; because the Egyptians may not take food with the Hebrews, for that would make them unclean.
Genesis 44:2
And put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag, with his money. So he did as Joseph said.
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Genesis 48:15
And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,
Deuteronomy 13:4
But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him.
Psalms 23:1
A Psalm. Of David. The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.
Psalms 34:9
Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything.
Psalms 34:10
The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.
Psalms 37:3
Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
Matthew 6:31
Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed?
Matthew 6:32
Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:
Matthew 6:33
But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
Luke 12:29
And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.
Luke 12:30
For the nations of the world go in search of all these things: but your Father has knowledge that you have need of them.
Luke 12:31
But let your chief care be for his kingdom, and these other things will be given to you in addition.
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Genesis 49:1
And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times.
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Exodus 16:14
And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth.
Exodus 16:31
And this bread was named manna by Israel: it was white, like a grain seed, and its taste was like cakes made with honey.
Exodus 16:33
And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations.
Exodus 16:35
And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.
Numbers 11:9
When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna came down with it.
Psalms 105:40
At the people's request he sent birds, and gave them the bread of heaven for food.
John 6:33
The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.
John 6:34
Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever!
John 6:35
And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.
John 6:49
Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.
John 6:58
This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.
Revelation 2:17
He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.
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Exodus 17:3
And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?
Exodus 17:7
And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?
Numbers 14:22
Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;
Numbers 21:5
And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.
Numbers 21:6
Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 6:16
Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.
Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.
Psalms 78:20
See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?
Psalms 95:7
For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!
Psalms 95:8
Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
Psalms 95:9
When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
Psalms 95:10
For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;
Psalms 95:11
And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
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Numbers 33:10
And they went on from Elim and put up their tents by the Red Sea.
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Deuteronomy 2:22
As he did for the children of Esau living in Seir, when he sent destruction on the Horites before them, and they took their land where they are living to this day:
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Deuteronomy 3:1
Then turning we took the road to Bashan: and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us with all his people, and made an attack on us at Edrei.
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Deuteronomy 4:23
Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 6:12
Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
2 Kings 17:38
And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.
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Deuteronomy 28:63
And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.
Deuteronomy 30:5
Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.
Lamentations 3:31
For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.
Lamentations 3:32
For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.
Lamentations 3:33
For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.
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Numbers 23:10
Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!
Deuteronomy 32:29
If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
Psalms 37:37
Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.
Psalms 90:12
So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Psalms 90:14
In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.
Luke 16:19
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
Luke 16:20
And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
Luke 16:21
Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.
Luke 16:22
And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.
Luke 16:23
And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.
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Psalms 107:4
They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.
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Psalms 107:5
Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.
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Job 4:17
May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?
Job 31:6
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
Psalms 17:3
You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.
Psalms 139:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
Psalms 139:2
You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
Psalms 139:24
See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
Jeremiah 17:10
I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
Revelation 2:23
And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.
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Proverbs 3:12
For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.
Isaiah 26:16
Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.
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Isaiah 2:2
And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.
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Deuteronomy 2:7
For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.
Nehemiah 9:12
And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.
Nehemiah 9:13
And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:
Nehemiah 9:14
And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:
Nehemiah 9:16
But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,
Nehemiah 9:17
And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.
Nehemiah 9:18
Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;
Isaiah 63:7
I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.
Isaiah 63:8
For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.
Isaiah 63:9
It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
Isaiah 63:10
But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.
Isaiah 63:11
Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,
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Psalms 44:3
For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.
Isaiah 63:12
He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;
Isaiah 63:13
He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?
Isaiah 63:14
Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name.
Amos 2:10
And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.
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Jeremiah 44:18
But from the time when we gave up burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, we have been in need of all things, and have been wasted by the sword and by need of food.
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Lamentations 3:26
It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.
Lamentations 3:28
Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.
Lamentations 3:29
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.
Lamentations 3:30
Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.
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1 Kings 10:1
Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions.
Daniel 1:12
Put your servants to the test for ten days; let them give us grain for our food and water for our drink.
Daniel 1:14
So he gave ear to them in this thing and put them to the test for ten days.
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Job 33:17
In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;
Isaiah 2:11
The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
Daniel 4:30
The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?
Daniel 4:31
While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you:
Daniel 4:32
And they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.
Daniel 4:33
That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds.
Daniel 4:34
And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation.
Daniel 4:35
And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
Daniel 4:36
At the same time my reason came back to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my great name came back to me; and my wise men and my lords were turned to me again; and I was made safe in my kingdom and had more power than before.
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.
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Hosea 12:9
But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.
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Song of Solomon 8:5
Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
Hosea 13:5
I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was.
Zechariah 14:7
And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.
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Malachi 3:4
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years.
Malachi 4:1
For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.
Malachi 4:2
But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
Malachi 4:3
And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.
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Matthew 10:16
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
2 Corinthians 8:8
I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.
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2 Chronicles 32:26
But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.
Proverbs 15:33
The fear of the Lord is the teaching of wisdom; and a low opinion of oneself goes before honour.
Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Isaiah 66:2
For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
Matthew 5:3
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
Matthew 18:4
Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 23:12
And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
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Deuteronomy 8:13
And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;
Deuteronomy 8:18
But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.
Joshua 24:15
And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
Luke 22:35
And he said to them, When I sent you out without money or bag or shoes, were you in need of anything? And they said, Nothing.
2 Corinthians 9:10
And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;
1 Timothy 6:17
Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
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2 Corinthians 2:9
And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things.
2 Corinthians 7:12
So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God.
2 Corinthians 7:13
So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.
2 Corinthians 7:14
For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.
2 Corinthians 7:15
And his love to you is the more increased by his memory of you all, how you gave way to his authority, and how you took him to your hearts with fear and honour.
2 Corinthians 8:24
Make clear then to them, as representatives of the churches, the quality of your love, and that the things which we have said about you are true.
Philippians 2:22
But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news.
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John 6:6
This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.
Hebrews 9:4
Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement;
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Job 7:18
And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?
Psalms 94:12
Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;
Psalms 94:13
So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.
Psalms 94:14
The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;
Psalms 119:67
Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
Hebrews 12:5
And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;
Hebrews 12:6
For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.
Hebrews 12:7
It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?
Hebrews 12:8
But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.
Hebrews 12:9
And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
Revelation 3:19
To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.
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1 Corinthians 11:19
For divisions are necessary among you, in order that those who have God's approval may be clearly seen among you.
James 1:3
Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;
James 1:12
There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.
James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:
1 Peter 4:12
Dear brothers, do not be surprised, as if it was something strange, if your faith is tested as by fire:
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1 Chronicles 21:2
And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.
Job 1:11
But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.
Job 1:12
And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.
Job 2:3
And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.
Job 2:4
And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.
Job 2:5
But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.
Job 2:6
And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.
Daniel 11:35
And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time.
James 1:2
Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;
James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
Revelation 2:10
Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.
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