Matthew 4:4
Good News Translation
But Jesus answered, "The scripture says, 'Human beings cannot live on bread alone, but need every word that God speaks.'"

New Revised Standard Version
But he answered, “It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered, "The Scriptures say: 'No one can live only on food. People need every word that God has spoken.'"

New American Bible
He said in reply, “It is written: ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

It is.

Matthew 4:7,10 Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. . . .

Luke 4:4,8,12 And Jesus answered him: is written that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God. . . .

Romans 15:4 For what things soever were written were written for our learning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope.

Ephesians 6:17 And take unto you the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God).

Man.

Deuteronomy 8:3 He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered him: is written that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God.

but.

Matthew 14:16-21 But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give you them to eat. . . .

Exodus 16:8,15,35 And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord. . . .

Exodus 23:15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me.

1 Kings 17:12-16 And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it and die. . . .

2 Kings 4:42-44 And a certain man came from Baalsalisa, bringing to the man of God, bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat. . . .

2 Kings 7:1,2 And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord: Tomorrow, about this time, a bushel of fine flour shall be sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of Samaria. . . .

Haggai 2:16-19 When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten: and you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they became twenty. . . .

Malachi 3:9-11 And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you. . . .

Mark 6:38-44 And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes. . . .

Mark 8:4-9 And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness? . . .

John 6:5 When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?

*etc:

John 6:31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

*etc:

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

but.

Context
The Temptation of Jesus
3And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God. 5Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:3
He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Matthew 15:11
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Mark 7:20
But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man.

John 15:26
But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me.

Matthew 4:3
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