Genesis 47:19
"Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate."
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- Nehemiah 5:2
"For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live."
Read in chapter → - Job 2:4
"And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 1:11
"All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 5:6
"We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 5:9
"We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness."
Read in chapter → - Philippians 3:8
"Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,"
Read in chapter → - Matthew 16:26
"For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
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