Deuteronomy 8:17

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.'

Cross References

Job 31:25

if I have rejoiced over my great success, and over the many things my hand has obtained;

Psalm 44:3

You are a brilliant form before the sons of men. Grace has been poured freely into your lips. Because of this, God has blessed you in eternity.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time to gain, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I turned myself toward another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the learned, nor grace to the skilful: but there is a time and an end for all these things.

Jeremiah 9:22

"Speak: Thus says the Lord: And the corpses of men will fall like manure over the face of the countryside, and like hay behind the back of the reaper, and there will be no one to gather it."

Ezekiel 28:5

By the multitude of your wisdom, and by your business dealings, you have multiplied strength for yourself. And your heart has been exalted by your strength.

Daniel 4:27

And the king spoke out loud, saying, "Isn't this the great Babylon, which I have built, as the home of the kingdom, by the strength of my power and in the glory of my excellence?"

Daniel 4:30

The same hour, the sentence was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven away from among men, and he ate hay like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair increased like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like those of birds.

Hosea 12:8

And Ephraim has said, "Nevertheless, I have become rich; I have found an idol for myself. All of my labors will not reveal to me the iniquity that I have committed."

Habakkuk 1:16

For this reason, he will offer victims to his dragnet, and he will sacrifice to his netting. For through them, his portion has been made fat, and his meals elite.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For what distinguishes you from another? And what do you have that you have not received? But if you have received it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?

Deuteronomy 7:17

If you say in your heart, 'These nations are more than I am, so how will I be able to destroy them?'

Deuteronomy 9:4

You should not say in your heart, when the Lord your God will have destroyed them in your sight: 'It is because of my justice that the Lord led me in, so that I might possess this land, while these nations have been destroyed because of their impiety.'

Judges 7:2

And the Lord said to Gideon: "The people with you are many, but Midian shall not be delivered into their hands, for then Israel might glory against me, and say, 'I was freed by my own power.'

1 Samuel 2:7

The Lord impoverishes, and he enriches. He humbles, and he lifts up.

1 Samuel 30:23

But David said: "You shall not do this, my brothers, with these things that the Lord has delivered to us, for he has preserved us, and he has given into our hands the robbers who broke out among us.