Genesis 43:9

New Century Version

I will guarantee you that he will be safe, and I will be personally responsible for him. If I don’t bring him back to you, you can blame me all my life.

Cross References

Genesis 31:39

Any time an animal was killed by wild beasts, I did not bring it to you, but made up for the loss myself. You made me pay for any animal that was stolen during the day or night.

Genesis 42:37

Then Reuben said to his father, “You may put my two sons to death if I don’t bring Benjamin back to you. Trust him to my care, and I will bring him back to you.”

Genesis 43:10

If we had not wasted all this time, we could have already made two trips.”

Genesis 9:5

I will demand blood for life. I will demand the life of any animal that kills a person, and I will demand the life of anyone who takes another person’s life.

2 Samuel 14:9

The woman of Tekoa said to him, “Let the blame be on me and my father’s family. My master and king, you and your throne are innocent.”

1 Kings 1:21

As soon as you die, Solomon and I will be treated as criminals.”

Job 17:3

“God, make me a promise. No one will make a pledge for me.

Psalm 119:122

Promise that you will help me, your servant. Don’t let proud people wrong me.

Ezekiel 3:18

When I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ you must warn them so they may live. If you don’t speak out to warn the wicked to stop their evil ways, they will die in their sin. But I will hold you responsible for their death.

Ezekiel 3:20

“Again, those who do right may turn away from doing good and do evil. If I make something bad happen to them, they will die. Because you have not warned them, they will die because of their sin, and the good they did will not be remembered. But I will hold you responsible for their deaths.

Ezekiel 33:6

But if the watchman sees the enemy coming to attack and does not blow the trumpet, the people will not be warned. Then if the enemy comes and kills any of them, they have died because of their own sin. But I will punish the watchman for their deaths.’

Ezekiel 33:8

Suppose I say to the wicked: ‘Wicked people, you will surely die,’ but you don’t speak to warn the wicked to stop doing evil. Then they will die because they were sinners, but I will punish you for their deaths.

Luke 11:50

So you who live now will be punished for the deaths of all the prophets who were killed since the beginning of the world—

Hebrews 7:22

This means that Jesus is the guarantee of a better agreement from God to his people.