Genesis 31:41

Good News Translation

It was like that for the whole twenty years I was with you. For fourteen years I worked to win your two daughters—and six years for your flocks. And even then, you changed my wages ten times.

Cross References

Genesis 27:44

and stay with him for a while, until your brother's anger cools down

Genesis 29:15

Laban said to Jacob, “You shouldn't work for me for nothing just because you are my relative. How much pay do you want?”

Genesis 30:28

Name your wages, and I will pay them.”

Genesis 31:38

I have been with you now for twenty years; your sheep and your goats have not failed to reproduce, and I have not eaten any rams from your flocks.

Genesis 31:40

Many times I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was not able to sleep.

Genesis 31:6

You both know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.

Genesis 31:7

Yet he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not let him harm me.

Genesis 32:4

He instructed them to say: “I, Jacob, your obedient servant, report to my master Esau that I have been staying with Laban and that I have delayed my return until now.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by God's grace I am what I am, and the grace that he gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God's grace working with me.

2 Corinthians 11:26

In my many travels I have been in danger from floods and from robbers, in danger from my own people and from Gentiles; there have been dangers in the cities, dangers in the wilds, dangers on the high seas, and dangers from false friends.