Deuteronomy 8:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Otherwise, you might say in your heart, “It is my own power and the strength of my own hand that has got me this wealth.”

Cross References

Job 31:25

Or had I rejoiced that my wealth was great, or that my hand had acquired abundance—

Psalm 44:3

You rooted out nations to plant them, crushed peoples and expelled 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

Again I saw under the sun that the race is not won by the swift, nor the battle by the valiant, nor a livelihood by the wise, nor riches by the shrewd, nor favor by the experts; for a time of misfortune comes to all alike.

Jeremiah 9:22

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise boast of his wisdom, nor the strong boast of his strength, nor the rich man boast of his riches;

Ezekiel 28:5

Through your great wisdom in trading you heaped up riches for yourself— your heart is haughty because of your riches.

Daniel 4:27

the king said, “Babylon the great! Was it not I, with my great strength, who built it as a royal residence for my splendor and majesty?”

Daniel 4:30

At once this was fulfilled. Nebuchadnezzar was cast out from human society, he ate grass like an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle, and his nails like the claws of a bird.

Hosea 12:8

A merchant who holds a false balance, he loves to extort!

Habakkuk 1:16

Therefore he makes sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his fishing net; For thanks to them his portion is rich, and his meal lavish.

1 Corinthians 4:7

Who confers distinction upon you? What do you possess that you have not received? But if you have received it, why are you boasting as if you did not receive it?

Deuteronomy 7:17

If you say to yourselves, “These nations are more numerous than we. How can we dispossess them?”

Deuteronomy 9:4

After the Lord, your God, has driven them out of your way, do not say in your heart, “It is because of my justice the Lord has brought me in to possess this land, and because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord is dispossessing them before me.”

Judges 7:2

The Lord said to Gideon: You have too many soldiers with you for me to deliver Midian into their power, lest Israel vaunt itself against me and say, “My own power saved me.”

1 Samuel 2:7

The Lord makes poor and makes rich, humbles, and also exalts.

1 Samuel 30:23

But David said: “You must not do this, my brothers, after what the Lord has given us. The Lord has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders that came against us.