Genesis 42:21

World English Bible (2000)

They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."

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  • Hos 5:15 : 15 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
  • Gen 37:23-28 : 23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him; 24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it. 25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? 27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him. 28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
  • Job 36:8-9 : 8 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions, 9 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
  • Prov 1:27-28 : 27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you. 28 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! 12 If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
  • Prov 28:17 : 17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.
  • Jer 2:17 : 17 "Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 "Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
  • Jer 4:18 : 18 "Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."
  • Jer 34:17 : 17 Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Gen 41:9 : 9 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.
  • Num 32:23 : 23 "But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
  • Judg 1:7 : 7 Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
  • 2 Sam 12:13 : 13 David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
  • 1 Kgs 17:18 : 18 She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"
  • Job 33:27-28 : 27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me. 28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'
  • Job 34:31-32 : 31 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. 32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
  • Matt 27:3-4 : 3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."
  • Mark 9:43-45 : 43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, 44 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 45 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched--
  • Mark 9:48 : 48 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
  • Luke 16:28 : 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment.'
  • Acts 19:18 : 18 Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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