Genesis 39

²⁸So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

¹⁷He sent a man before them—Joseph, sold as a slave.

³⁶Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.

²⁵And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.

⁹Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

⁴Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!

¹⁴and he continued to prosper in all his ways, because the Lord was with him.

¹⁵When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

²⁰Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the Lord.

²⁸“We can plainly see that the Lord has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you

⁹Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

¹⁰and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.

²²At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

³He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

⁵He sought God throughout the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. And as long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success.

¹⁴and he continued to prosper in all his ways, because the Lord was with him.

²⁷But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”

¹⁶In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

²²At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

²¹the Lord was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.

²²And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.

¹⁹Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

¹⁸Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.

⁸But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

²So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

²⁸Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

²⁷But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”

¹¹Thus the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the Lord blessed him and all his household.

¹²Now it was reported to King David, “The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing.

²⁴and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And look, God has granted you the lives of all who sail with you.’

¹⁷May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.

²I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

¹²So Jesse sent for his youngest son and brought him in. He was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the Lord said, “Rise and anoint him, for he is the one.”

¹⁷His master replied, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

¹¹The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he lacks nothing of value.

¹⁷Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.

²³The warden did not concern himself with anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.

²⁰At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.

³⁴So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!

¹¹And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”

¹⁴Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

³²You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

¹²She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.

¹³And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.

⁵Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors

⁶clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.

¹⁴The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the Lord will fall into it.

²⁶My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

²⁷For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

¹³The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.

¹⁴She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,

¹⁰My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

⁵that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

²⁰My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

²¹Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

¹³Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” “The Lord has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.

⁶Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

¹⁸and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:

⁹Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

⁴⁸But the one who unknowingly does things worthy of punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from him who has been entrusted with much, even more will be demanded.

¹⁹The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

²⁰idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,

¹¹Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

³³Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

²²Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

¹⁸Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

²²Abstain from every form of evil.

¹⁶It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

³But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

¹²For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

⁵“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the Lord of Hosts.

¹⁷“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”

²⁴“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

¹⁵The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

²²Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

¹³She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

¹⁴“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.

²⁶And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

¹¹Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

⁸Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

⁵Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

⁵⁹Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.

¹⁵For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”

³What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?

¹⁷Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,

¹⁸The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

¹¹Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

³²Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,

¹²The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

³For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

³“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the Lord.

⁴“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

²²“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

¹“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

³at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they bring down disaster upon me and resent me in their anger.

¹⁷When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Israel?”

¹⁹Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

⁹In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.

¹⁰But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”

⁵A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.

¹¹For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,

¹⁷The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

¹⁶I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

¹²If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

¹⁶I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.

⁵but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.

⁶“Why are you angry,” said the Lord to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?

¹⁵For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”

¹⁹For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.

⁹Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

¹⁰Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guard.

⁹for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!

¹Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

²Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

¹⁸They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,

¹⁹until his prediction came true and the word of the Lord proved him right.

¹⁰Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

²¹And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.

¹⁷For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

⁹Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

¹⁰and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.

²When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

³¹What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

³²He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

³and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.

⁴The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. After they had been in custody for some time,

⁴Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household and entrusted him with everything he owned.

⁹No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

³⁰Therefore, the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the Lord declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.

⁶So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,

⁷and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

³Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

²When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

³He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

²And the Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.

³When his master saw that the Lord was with him and made him prosper in all he did,

²²My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”

²³The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.

²⁴Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

³⁰Therefore, the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the Lord declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.