What Does The Bible Say About?

Bread

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Matthew 4:4

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

John 6:32-35

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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. For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” “Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.” Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

John 6:50-71

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This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. 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.” At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” 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. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. . . .

Matthew 26:26

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While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”

1 Corinthians 10:17

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Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.

John 6:35

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

Matthew 6:11

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Give us this day our daily bread.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

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Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

John 6:47-50

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Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

John 6:55-59

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For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him. 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. 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.” Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Ecclesiastes 11:1

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Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.

Leviticus 26:26

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When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Exodus 29:23

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along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.

1 Kings 17:12

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But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

John 6:50

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

Exodus 29:2

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along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,

Isaiah 55:2

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Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

2 Corinthians 9:10

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Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Acts 20:7

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On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.

Genesis 14:18

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Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High—

John 6:51

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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.”

Deuteronomy 8:3

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He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

Luke 22:19

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And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

Judges 7:13

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And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

Jeremiah 7:18

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The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

Psalm 81:16

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But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Matthew 13:33

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He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

Psalm 37:25

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I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.

Genesis 18:6

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So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

Leviticus 23:17

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Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.

Ruth 2:14

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At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

1 Kings 22:27

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and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”

Exodus 16:31

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

1 Samuel 28:24

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The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

Acts 2:46

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With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,

Genesis 18:5

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And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”

Isaiah 30:20

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The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.

Jeremiah 37:21

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So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

1 Corinthians 11:23

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For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,

1 Corinthians 11:24

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and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

1 Samuel 2:36

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And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

Ezekiel 4:16

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Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

Matthew 26:26-29

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While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

Exodus 12:34

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So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.

Genesis 3:19

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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

John 4:14

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But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

Leviticus 7:13

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Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.

Ezekiel 4:9

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But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Ezekiel 5:16

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When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

Hosea 7:4

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They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

Psalm 104:15

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wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

1 Samuel 25:18

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Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys

Exodus 12:8

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They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Exodus 25:30

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And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.

Genesis 27:17

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Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.

Numbers 11:8

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The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

1 Kings 19:6

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And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.

Genesis 19:3

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But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

Genesis 40:2

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Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

Leviticus 2:4

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Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.

Exodus 12:18

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In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

John 6:1-71

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After this, Jesus crossed to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias). A large crowd followed Him because they saw the signs He was performing on the sick. Then Jesus went up on the mountain and sat down with His disciples. Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near. When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?” . . .

John 6:44

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“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 6:9

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“Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”

John 21:9

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When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and some bread.

John 6:33

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

John 6:48

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I am the bread of life.

1 Kings 14:3

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Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the boy.”

1 Samuel 21:6

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So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.

2 Samuel 6:19

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Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.

Isaiah 44:19

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And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

Joshua 9:12

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This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But take a look, it is now dry and moldy.

Mark 6:37

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But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”

Proverbs 31:27

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She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Ruth 1:6

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When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.

Proverbs 30:8

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

1 Corinthians 11:26

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For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

1 Samuel 21:4

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“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”

1 Samuel 8:13

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And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

Exodus 23:25

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So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.

John 8:12

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Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Leviticus 7:9

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Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it,

Psalm 127:2

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In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

1 Chronicles 12:40

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And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

1 Corinthians 5:8

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Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

Exodus 8:3

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The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

John 6:66-71

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From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him. So Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you want to leave too?” Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.” Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” . . .

Lamentations 1:11

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All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.

Leviticus 2:5

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If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.

Leviticus 22:25

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Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”

Matthew 14:19

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And He directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

1 Corinthians 11:23-25

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For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

1 Corinthians 5:7

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Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Exodus 29:32

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At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.

Genesis 21:14

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Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

Lamentations 4:4

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The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

Luke 24:30

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While He was reclining at the table with them, He took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to them.

Matthew 14:15

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When evening came, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”

Proverbs 20:17

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Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.

Acts 17:10-11

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As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

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