Psalm 17:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

from mortals—by your hand, O Lord— from mortals whose portion in life is in this world. May their bellies be filled with what you have stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their little ones.

Cross References

Job 22:18

Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

John 17:14

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 8:23

He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are from this world, I am not from this world.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner evil things, but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.

Luke 16:8

And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

James 5:5

You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

Psalm 73:12

Such are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

Job 21:21

For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off?

Job 12:9

Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.

Matthew 13:44

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and reburied; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures—