Luke 4:4
Verse 4 of 44. The 4th of 24 chapters in Luke, in The Gospels.
1And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
3And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
4And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
5And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
8And 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.
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Luke 4:4 in the World English Bible
Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”Read Luke 4:4 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Luke 4:4
He returned a scripture-answer to it (v. 4): It is written. This is the first word recorded as spoken by Christ after his instalment in his prophetical office; and it is a quotation out of the Old Testament, to show that he came to assert and maintain the authority of the scripture as uncontrollable, even by Satan himself.
Read Matthew Henry on Luke 4:1–13: The Temptation in the Wilderness.
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.