Genesis 42:11

Good News Translation

We are all brothers. We are not spies, sir, we are honest men.”

Cross References

Genesis 42:12

Joseph said to them, “No! You have come to find out where our country is weak.”

Genesis 42:16

One of you must go and get him. The rest of you will be kept under guard until the truth of what you say can be tested. Otherwise, as sure as the king lives, you are spies.”

Genesis 42:19

To prove that you are honest, one of you will stay in the prison where you have been kept; the rest of you may go and take back to your starving families the grain that you have bought.

Genesis 42:31

‘We are not spies,’ we answered, ‘we are honest men.

Genesis 43:7

They answered, “The man kept asking about us and our family, ‘Is your father still living? Do you have another brother?’ We had to answer his questions. How could we know that he would tell us to bring our brother with us?”

John 7:18

Those who speak on their own authority are trying to gain glory for themselves. But he who wants glory for the one who sent him is honest, and there is nothing false in him.

2 Corinthians 6:4

Instead, in everything we do we show that we are God's servants by patiently enduring troubles, hardships, and difficulties.