Deuteronomy 8:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ and thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ and thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And beware lest you say in your [mind and] heart, My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ and lest thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Don’t think to yourself, My own strength and abilities have produced all this prosperity for me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Otherwise, you might say in your heart: 'My own strength, and the power of my own hand, have brought forth all these things for me.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me.

Deuteronomy 8:17 Cross References

Job 31:25

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because mine hand had gotten much;

Psalm 44:3

For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them: But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, Because thou hadst a favour unto them.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but fame and chance happeneth to them all.

Jeremiah 9:22

Speak, Thus saith the LORD, The carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

Ezekiel 28:5

by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

Daniel 4:27

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

Daniel 4:30

The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

Hosea 12:8

And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labours they shall find in me none iniquity that were sin.

Habakkuk 1:16

Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his meat plenteous.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

Deuteronomy 7:17

If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Deuteronomy 9:4

Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: whereas for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

Judges 7:2

And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

1 Samuel 2:7

The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, he also lifteth up.

1 Samuel 30:23

Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given unto us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.