Deuteronomy 8:12

New International Version

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,

Cross References

Proverbs 30:9

Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

Deuteronomy 32:15

Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.

Deuteronomy 28:47

Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

Luke 17:28

“It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

Haggai 1:4

“Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”

Amos 5:11

You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

Ecclesiastes 2:4

I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.

Deuteronomy 31:20

When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their ancestors, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant.

Ezekiel 11:3

They say, ‘Haven’t our houses been recently rebuilt? This city is a pot, and we are the meat in it.’

Deuteronomy 8:13

and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,

Deuteronomy 6:10

When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build,