Matthew 6:11

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Matthew 6:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’

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Matthew 4:4

But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Exodus 16:16

This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”

Exodus 16:17

So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.

Exodus 16:18

When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

Exodus 16:19

Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.”

Exodus 16:20

But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.

Exodus 16:21

Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

Exodus 16:22

On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person —and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses.

Exodus 16:23

He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”

Exodus 16:24

So they set it aside until morning as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any maggots.

Exodus 16:25

“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you will not find anything in the field.

Exodus 16:26

For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”

Exodus 16:27

Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.

Exodus 16:28

Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?

Exodus 16:29

Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”

Exodus 16:30

So the people rested on the seventh day.

Exodus 16:31

Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

Exodus 16:32

Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

Exodus 16:33

So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”

Exodus 16:34

And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

Psalms 33:18

Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion

Psalms 33:19

to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

Psalms 34:10

Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

Proverbs 30:8

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.

Isaiah 33:16

he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.

Luke 11:3

Give us each day our daily bread.

John 6:31

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

John 6:32

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

John 6:33

For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 6:34

“Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.”

John 6:35

Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

John 6:36

But as I stated, you have seen Me and still you do not believe.

John 6:37

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

John 6:39

And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.

John 6:40

For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6:41

At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

John 6:42

They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven?’”

John 6:43

“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus replied.

John 6:44

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:45

It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

John 6:46

not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.

John 6:47

Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

John 6:48

I am the bread of life.

John 6:49

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

John 6:50

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

John 6:52

At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

John 6:53

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.

John 6:54

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:55

For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.

John 6:56

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

John 6:57

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

John 6:58

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

John 6:59

Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

2 Thessalonians 3:12

We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.

1 Timothy 6:8

But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.