Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 8:14-19 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

14. be careful that your heart doesn’t become proud and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

15. He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you.

16. He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

17. You may say to yourself, ‘My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me,’

18. but remember that the Lord your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant He swore to your fathers, as it is today.

19. If you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will perish.