Deuteronomy 8:11–18

¹¹“Be careful that you don’t forget the Lord your God by failing to keep His command—the ordinances and statutes—I am giving you today. ¹²When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in, ¹³and your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything else you have increases, ¹⁴be 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. ^b15He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous ^csnakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you. ¹⁶He fed you in the wilderness with manna ^dthat your fathers had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper. ¹⁷You may say to yourself, ‘My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me,’ ¹⁸but remember that the Lord your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant He swore to your fathers, ^eas it is today.