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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Matthew 4:4 Catholic Bible: But Jesus answered, "The scripture says, 'Human beings cannot live on bread alone, but need every word that God speaks.'" </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/matthew/4-4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/matthew/4-4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/matthew/4-4.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/matthew/1.htm">Matthew</a> > <a href="/gntd/matthew/4.htm">Chapter 4</a> > Verse 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/4-3.htm" title="Matthew 4:3">◄</a> Matthew 4:4 <a href="../matthew/4-5.htm" title="Matthew 4:5">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/matthew/4.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/matthew/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But Jesus answered, "The scripture says, 'Human beings cannot live on bread alone, but need every word that God speaks.'" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/matthew/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But he answered, “It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/matthew/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Jesus answered, "The Scriptures say: 'No one can live only on food. People need every word that God has spoken.'" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/matthew/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />He said in reply, “It is written: ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.’ ” <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/matthew/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.</p><p class="hdg">It is.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/4-7.htm">Matthew 4:7,10</a> Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/4-4.htm">Luke 4:4,8,12</a> And Jesus answered him: is written that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/15-4.htm">Romans 15:4</a> For what things soever were written were written for our learning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/6-17.htm">Ephesians 6:17</a> And take unto you the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God).</p><p class="hdg">Man.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/8-3.htm">Deuteronomy 8:3</a> He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/4-4.htm">Luke 4:4</a> And Jesus answered him: is written that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God.</p><p class="hdg">but.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/14-16.htm">Matthew 14:16-21</a> But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give you them to eat. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/16-8.htm">Exodus 16:8,15,35</a> And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/23-15.htm">Exodus 23:15</a> Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/17-12.htm">1 Kings 17:12-16</a> And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: 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. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/4-42.htm">2 Kings 4:42-44</a> And a certain man came from Baalsalisa, bringing to the man of God, bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/7-1.htm">2 Kings 7:1,2</a> And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord: Tomorrow, about this time, a bushel of fine flour shall be sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of Samaria. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../haggai/2-16.htm">Haggai 2:16-19</a> When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten: and you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they became twenty. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/3-9.htm">Malachi 3:9-11</a> And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/6-38.htm">Mark 6:38-44</a> And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/8-4.htm">Mark 8:4-9</a> And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/6-5.htm">John 6:5</a> When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?</p><p class="hdg2">*etc:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/6-31.htm">John 6:31</a> Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.</p><p class="hdg2">*etc:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/6-63.htm">John 6:63</a> It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.</p><p class="hdg">but.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/matthew/4.htm">The Temptation of Jesus</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl">Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.</span> <span class="reftext">5</span>Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/8-3.htm">Deuteronomy 8:3</a></span><br />He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/15-11.htm">Matthew 15:11</a></span><br />Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/7-20.htm">Mark 7:20</a></span><br />But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/15-26.htm">John 15:26</a></span><br />But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/9-4.htm">Alone</a> <a href="/hosea/1-11.htm">Appoint</a> <a href="/matthew/4-3.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/malachi/1-9.htm">God's</a> <a href="/zechariah/11-17.htm">Goes</a> <a href="/matthew/4-1.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/matthew/1-25.htm">Live</a> <a href="/malachi/2-7.htm">Mouth</a> <a href="/matthew/4-2.htm">Need</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-4.htm">Proceedeth</a> <a href="/isaiah/57-16.htm">Proceeds</a> <a href="/hosea/9-14.htm">Whatsoever</a> <a href="/matthew/4-3.htm">Word</a> <a href="/matthew/2-5.htm">Writings</a> <a href="/matthew/2-5.htm">Written</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/matthew/4-10.htm">Alone</a> <a href="/matthew/24-51.htm">Appoint</a> <a href="/matthew/6-11.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/matthew/5-34.htm">God's</a> <a href="/matthew/5-13.htm">Goes</a> <a href="/matthew/4-7.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/matthew/27-29.htm">Live</a> <a href="/matthew/5-2.htm">Mouth</a> <a href="/matthew/6-8.htm">Need</a> <a href="/matthew/15-11.htm">Proceedeth</a> <a href="/matthew/15-11.htm">Proceeds</a> <a href="/matthew/5-37.htm">Whatsoever</a> <a href="/matthew/4-14.htm">Word</a> <a href="/matthew/4-7.htm">Writings</a> <a href="/matthew/4-6.htm">Written</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/matthew/4-4.htm">Matthew 4:4 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/matthew/4-4.htm">Matthew 4:4 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/matthew/4-4.htm">Matthew 4:4 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/matthew/4-4.htm">Matthew 4:4 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/matthew/4-4.htm">Matthew 4:4 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/matthew/4-4.htm">Matthew 4:4 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/matthew/4-4.htm">Matthew 4:4 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/matthew/4-4.htm">Matthew 4:4 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/matthew/4-4.htm">Matthew 4:4 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: alone and answered bread but comes does every from God God' He is It Jesus live Man mouth not of on out proceeds said shall that the word written<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/4-4.htm">NT Gospels: Matthew 4:4 But he answered It is written 'Man (Matt. 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