Deuteronomy 8:11-20

International Standard Version

¹¹ Be careful! Otherwise, you will forget the Lord your God by failing to keep his commands, ordinances, and statutes that I’m commanding you this day. ¹² Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you have built beautiful houses and lived in them, ¹³ when your cattle and oxen have multiplied, and when your silver and gold have increased, ¹⁴ then you will become arrogant. You’ll neglect the Lord your God, ¹⁵ who brought you out of the land of Egypt—from the house of slavery—and who led you through the vast and dangerous desert—that parched land without water—with its poisonous snakes and scorpions. He brought water out of solid rock for you ¹⁶ and fed you in the desert with manna that neither you nor your ancestors had known to humble and test you so that things may go well with you later. ¹⁷ You may say to yourselves, ‘I have become wealthy by my own strength and by my own ability.’^{[a] 18} But remember the Lord your God, because he is the one who gives you the ability to produce wealth, in order to confirm his covenant that he promised by an oath to your ancestors, as is the case today. ¹⁹ If you neglect the Lord your God, follow other gods, and serve and worship them, I testify to you today that you will certainly be destroyed. ²⁰ Just like the nations whom the Lord destroyed before you, so will you be destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.”