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Mat 4:4 — But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

It is		Mat 4:7,10; Luk 4:4,8,12; Rom 15:4; Eph 6:17
Man		Deu 8:3; Luk 4:4
but		Mat 14:16-21; Exd 16:8,15,35; Exd 23:15; 1Ki 17:12-16; 2Ki 4:42-44; 2Ki 7:1,2; Hag 2:16-19; Mal 3:9-11; Mar 6:38-44; Mar 8:4-9; Jhn 6:5; etc.; Jhn 6:31; etc.; Jhn 6:63
but		"That is, as Dr. Campbell renders, ""by every thing which God is pleased to appoint;"" for [rhema ( rēh=ma )] which generally signifies a word, is, by a Hebraism, here taken for a thing, like davar, in Hebrew."

Correlating Passages

It is

	Mat 4:7	Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
	Mat 4:10	Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
	Luk 4:4	And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
	Luk 4:8	And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
	Luk 4:12	And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
	Rom 15:4	For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
	Eph 6:17	And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Man

	Deu 8:3	And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
	Luk 4:4	And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

but

	Mat 14:16	But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
	Mat 14:17	And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
	Mat 14:18	He said, Bring them hither to me.
	Mat 14:19	And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to [his] disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
	Mat 14:20	And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
	Mat 14:21	And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
	Exd 16:8	And Moses said, [This shall be], when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what [are] we? your murmurings [are] not against us, but against the LORD.
	Exd 16:15	And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] manna: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
	Exd 16:35	And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
	Exd 23:15	Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
	1Ki 17:12	And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, 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.
	1Ki 17:13	And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go [and] do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring [it] unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
	1Ki 17:14	For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
	1Ki 17:15	And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.
	1Ki 17:16	[And] the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
	2Ki 4:42	And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
	2Ki 4:43	And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave [thereof].
	2Ki 4:44	So he set [it] before them, and they did eat, and left [thereof], according to the word of the LORD.
	2Ki 7:1	Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
	2Ki 7:2	Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
	Hag 2:16	Since those [days] were, when [one] came to an heap of twenty [measures], there were [but] ten: when [one] came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty [vessels] out of the press, there were [but] twenty.
	Hag 2:17	I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye [turned] not to me, saith the LORD.
	Hag 2:18	Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month, even] from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider [it].
	Hag 2:19	Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless [you].
	Mal 3:9	Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation.
	Mal 3:10	Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].
	Mal 3:11	And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
	Mar 6:38	He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
	Mar 6:39	And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
	Mar 6:40	And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
	Mar 6:41	And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave [them] to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.
	Mar 6:42	And they did all eat, and were filled.
	Mar 6:43	And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
	Mar 6:44	And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
	Mar 8:4	And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these [men] with bread here in the wilderness?
	Mar 8:5	And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
	Mar 8:6	And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before [them]; and they did set [them] before the people.
	Mar 8:7	And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before [them].
	Mar 8:8	So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken [meat] that was left seven baskets.
	Mar 8:9	And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
	Jhn 6:5	When Jesus then lifted up [his] eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?
	Jhn 6:31	Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
	Jhn 6:63	It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life.

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Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 4:4," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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