Genesis 42:11

New American Bible - revised edition

All of us are sons of the same man. We are honest men; your servants have never been spies.”

Cross References

Genesis 42:12

But he answered them: “Not so! It is the weak points of the land that you have come to see.”

Genesis 42:16

So send one of your number to get your brother, while the rest of you stay here under arrest. Thus will your words be tested for their truth; if they are untrue, as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

Genesis 42:19

If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in this prison, while the rest of you go and take home grain for your starving families.

Genesis 42:31

But we said to him: ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies.

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 answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

John 7:18

Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is no wrong in him.

2 Corinthians 6:4

on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints,