◄ Deuteronomy 8:18 ►
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Good News Translation
Remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to become rich. He does this because he is still faithful today to the covenant that he made with your ancestors.

New Revised Standard Version
But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.

Contemporary English Version
Instead, remember that the LORD your God gives you the strength to make a living. That's how he keeps the promise he made to your ancestors.

New American Bible
Remember then the LORD, your God, for he is the one who gives you the power to get wealth, by fulfilling, as he has now done, the covenant he swore to your ancestors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength, that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength, that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth.

he that

Psalm 127:1,2 A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it. . . .

Psalm 144:1 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.

Proverbs 10:22 A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.

Hosea 2:8 And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.

that he may

Deuteronomy 7:8,12 But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt. . . .

Context
Remember the LORD Your God
…17Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me. 18But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength, that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth.19But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and follow strange gods, and serve and adore them: behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt utterly perish.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 26:10
And therefore now I offer the firstfruits of the land which the Lord hath given me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of the Lord thy God, adoring the Lord thy God.

Judges 7:2
And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength.

1 Samuel 2:7
The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth:

2 Chronicles 25:9
And Amasias said to the man of God: What will then become of the hundred talents which I have given to the soldiers of Israel? and the man of God answered him: The Lord is rich enough to be able to give thee much more than this.

Psalm 44:3
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.

Proverbs 10:22
A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.

Ecclesiastes 9:11
I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but time and chance in all.

Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not:

Hosea 2:8
And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.

Deuteronomy 8:17
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