Genesis 31:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you have seen how I have done all in my power for your father,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 30:29 : 29 Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.
  • Gen 31:38-42 : 38 These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food. 39 Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night. 40 This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes. 41 These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed. 42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.
  • Eph 6:5-8 : 5 Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ; 6 Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart; 7 Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men: 8 In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.
  • Col 3:22-25 : 22 Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord: 23 Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men; 24 Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ. 25 For the wrongdoer will have punishment for the wrong he has done, without respect for any man's position.
  • Titus 2:9-9 : 9 Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument; 10 Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.
  • 1 Pet 2:18 : 18 Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 31:5
    83%

    5And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me

  • Gen 30:26-30
    5 verses
    82%

    26Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you.

    27And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.

    28Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it.

    29Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.

    30For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

  • Gen 31:7
    79%

    7But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.

  • Gen 31:41-42
    2 verses
    77%

    41These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

    42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

  • Gen 44:29-34
    6 verses
    75%

    29If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

    30If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,

    31When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.

    32For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

    33So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

    34For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

  • Gen 31:28-30
    3 verses
    75%

    28You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.

    29It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

    30And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?

  • Gen 44:27
    74%

    27And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons;

  • Gen 31:9
    73%

    9So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

  • Gen 31:37-38
    2 verses
    72%

    37Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.

    38These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

  • 2 Sam 16:19
    71%

    19And more than this! where is my place as a servant? is it not before his son? as I have been your father's servant, so will I be yours.

  • Gen 44:17
    71%

    17Then he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who had my cup will be my servant; and you may go back to your father in peace.

  • Gen 44:21-24
    4 verses
    71%

    21And you said to your servants, Let him come down to me with you, so that I may see him.

    22And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death.

    23But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.

    24And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.

  • Judg 9:17
    71%

    17(For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian;

  • Gen 27:37
    71%

    37And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son?

  • Gen 31:16
    70%

    16For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do.

  • Gen 29:18
    70%

    18And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

  • Gen 24:34
    70%

    34And he said, I am Abraham's servant.

  • Gen 20:13
    70%

    13And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

  • Gen 32:9
    70%

    9Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:

  • Gen 31:3
    70%

    3Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

  • Josh 2:12
    70%

    12So now, will you give me your oath by the Lord, that, because I have been kind to you, you will be kind to my father's house,

  • Gen 45:13
    69%

    13Give my father word of all my glory in Egypt and of all you have seen; and come back quickly with my father.

  • Gen 29:15
    69%

    15Then Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother are you to be my servant for nothing? say now, what is your payment to be?

  • Gen 21:23
    69%

    23Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

  • Gen 45:8
    69%

    8So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 46:31
    69%

    31And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;

  • Gen 24:49
    69%

    49And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.

  • Gen 33:13
    69%

    13But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

  • Gen 44:19
    69%

    19My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother?

  • Gen 24:66
    69%

    66Then the servant gave Isaac the story of all he had done.