Matthew 4:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Jesus answered, “The Scriptures say: ‘No one can live only on food. People need every word that God has spoken.’ ”

Cross References

Exodus 16:15

The people had never seen anything like this, and they started asking each other, “What is it?” Moses answered, “This is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate manna for forty years, before they came to the border of Canaan that was a settled land.

Exodus 16:8

Then Moses continued, “You will know it is the LORD when he gives you meat each evening and more than enough bread each morning. He is really the one you are complaining about, not us—we are nobodies—but the LORD has heard your complaints.”

Exodus 23:15

Celebrate the Festival of Thin Bread by eating bread made without yeast, just as I have commanded. Do this at the proper time during the month of Abib, because it is the month when you left Egypt. And make certain that everyone brings the proper offerings.

Matthew 15:11

The food that you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean.”

Matthew 4:10

Jesus answered, “Go away Satan! The Scriptures say: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’ ”

Matthew 4:7

Jesus answered, “The Scriptures also say, ‘Don't try to test the Lord your God!’ ”

Mark 7:20

Then Jesus said: What comes from your heart is what makes you unclean.

Luke 4:12

Jesus answered, “The Scriptures also say, ‘Don't try to test the Lord your God!’ ”

Luke 4:4

Jesus answered, “The Scriptures say, ‘No one can live only on food.’ ”

Luke 4:8

Jesus answered, “The Scriptures say: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve only him!’ ”

John 15:26

I will send you the Spirit who comes from the Father and shows what is true. The Spirit will help you and will tell you about me.

John 6:63

The Spirit is the one who gives life! Human strength can do nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are from that life-giving Spirit.

Romans 15:4

And the Scriptures were written to teach and encourage us by giving us hope.

Ephesians 6:17

Let God's saving power be like a helmet, and for a sword use God's message that comes from the Spirit.

Deuteronomy 8:3

so he made you go hungry. Then he gave you manna, a kind of food that you and your ancestors had never even heard about. The LORD was teaching you that people need more than food to live—they need every word that the LORD has spoken.