1 Timothy 6:8 Cross References - Coverdale

⁸ Whan we haue fode and rayment, let vs therwith be content.

²⁰ And Iacob made a vowe, and sayde: Yf God wyll be with me, and kepe me in this iourney yt I go & geue me bred to eate, and clothinge to put on,

¹⁵ And he blessed Ioseph, & saide: The God before who my fathers Abraha & Isaac haue walked: ye God yt hath fed me my lyfe longe vnto this daye:

⁷ For the LORDE thy God hath blessed the in all the workes of thy hondes. He hath considered thy iourneyes thorow this greate wyldernesse: and this fortye yeares hath the LORDE thy God bene with the, so that thou hast wanted nothinge.

³ He chastened the, and let the hunger, and fed the with Manna (which thou and thy fathers knewe not) to make the knowe, that man lyueth not by bred onely, but by all that proceadeth out of the mouth of the LORDE. ⁴ Thy clothes are not waxed olde vpon the, and thy fete are not swolle this fortye yeare.

²³ Se yt thou knowe the nombre of thy catell thy self, and loke well to thy flockes. ²⁴ For riches abyde not allwaye, & the crowne endureth not for euer. ²⁵ The hay groweth, ye grasse cometh vp, & herbes are gathered in ye mountaines. ²⁶ The lambes shal clothe the, & for the goates thou shalt haue money to yi hu?bondry. ²⁷ Thou shalt haue goates mylck ynough to fede the, to vpholde thy husholde, & to susteyne thy maydens.

⁸ Remoue fro me vanite and lyes: geue me nether pouerte ner riches, only graunte me a necessary lyuynge. ⁹ Lest yf I be to full, I denye ye, & saye: what felowe is ye LORDE? And lest I beinge constrayned thorow pouerte, fall vnto stealinge, and forsweare the name of my God.

²⁴ Is it not better then for a ma to eate and drynke, and his soule to be mery in his laboure? Yee I sawe that this also was a gifte of God: ²⁵ For who maye eate, drynke, or brynge eny thige to passe without him? And why? ²⁶ he geueth vnto ma, what it pleaseth him: whether it be wy?dome. vnderstondinge, or gladnesse. But vnto the synner he geueth weerynes and sorow, that he maye gather and heape together ye thinge, yt afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vayne thinge, yee a very disquietnesse and vexacio of mynde.

¹² So I perceaued, yt in these thinges there is nothinge better for a man, the to be mery & to do well so longe as he lyueth. ¹³ For all yt a man eateth & drynketh, yee what so euer a ma enioyeth of all his labor, ye same is a gift of God.

¹¹ Geue vs this daye oure dayly bred.

²⁵ Therfore I saye vnto you: be not ye carefull for your lyfe, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke: nor yet for youre body, what ye shal put on. Ys not the lyfe more worth the meate, and the body more of value then raymet? ²⁶ Beholde the foules of ye ayer: for they sowe not, nether reepe, nor yet cary in to the barnes: and yet youre heauely father fedeth the. Are ye not moch better the they? ²⁷ Which of you (though he toke thought therfore) coulde put one cubit vnto his stature? ²⁸ why care ye then for rayment? Considre the lylies of the felde, how they growe. They laboure not, nether spynne. ²⁹ And yet for all that I saye vnto you, that euen Salomon in all his royalte was not arayed lyke vnto one of these. ³⁰ Wherfore yf God so cloth the grasse, which is to daye in the felde, and to morowe shalbe cast into the fornace: shal he not moch more do the same vnto you, o ye of lytle fayth? ³¹ Therfore take no thought, sayinge: what shall we eate, or what shall we drinke? or where with shall we be clothed? ³² After all soch thynges do the heithen seke. For youre heauenly father knoweth, that ye haue nede of all these thynges. ³³ Seke ye fyrst the kyngdome of heauen and the righteousnes therof, so shal all these thynges be ministred vnto you.

⁵ Let youre conuersacion be without couetousnes, and be content with that ye haue allready, for he hath sayde: I wyl not fayle the nether forsake the, ⁶ so that we maye boldely saye: The LORDE is my helper, and I wyl not feare what man maye do vnto me.