Genesis 42:18

New American Bible - revised edition

On the third day Joseph said to them: “Do this, and you shall live; for I am a God-fearing man.

Cross References

Genesis 20:11

Abraham answered, “I thought there would be no fear of God in this place, and so they would kill me on account of my wife.

Genesis 39:9

He has no more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld from me nothing but you, since you are his wife. How, then, could I do this great wrong and sin against God?”

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.

Nehemiah 5:15

The earlier governors, my predecessors, had laid a heavy burden on the people, taking from them each day forty silver shekels for their food; then, too, their attendants oppressed the people. But I, because I feared God, did not do this.

Nehemiah 5:9

I continued: “What you are doing is not good. Should you not conduct yourselves out of fear of our God rather than fear of the reproach of our Gentile enemies?

Job 1:1

In the land of Uz there was a blameless and upright man named Job, who feared God and avoided evil.

Exodus 1:17

The midwives, however, feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt had ordered them, but let the boys live.

Exodus 18:21

But you should also look among all the people for able and God-fearing men, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain, and set them over the people as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Leviticus 25:17

Do not deal unfairly with one another, then; but stand in fear of your God. I, the Lord, am your God.

Leviticus 25:43

Do not lord it over them harshly, but stand in fear of your God.

Luke 18:2

“There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being.

Luke 18:4

For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being,