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Proverbs 30:8

The New Testament’s use of Proverbs

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Matt 6:9-13

'Feed me with the food that is needful for me' (Agur's prayer for neither poverty nor riches, just the daily portion) — the closest OT analogue to 'Give us today our daily bread,' both asking for sufficient daily provision.

High confidence
Luke 11:1-4

Agur's plea "feed me with the food that is needful for me" matches the bread petition's modest sufficiency and may inform the rare word epiousios. A strong thematic and lexical candidate for the source of "daily bread."

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Proverbs 30
Proverbs 30:4 3Proverbs 30:8-9 3