Verse 18

On the third day Joseph said to them,“Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 25:43 : 43 You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.
• Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.
• Gen 20:11 : 11 Abraham replied,“Because I thought,‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’
• Luke 18:2 : 2 He said,“In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.
• Luke 18:4 : 4 For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself,‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,
• Neh 5:9 : 9 Then I said,“The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?