Genesis 42:18

New English Translation

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

Cross References

Genesis 20:11

Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

Genesis 39:9

There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

Genesis 42:19

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:9

Then I said, “The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

Exodus 18:21

But you choose from the people capable men, God-fearing, men of truth, those who hate bribes, and put them over the people as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Leviticus 25:17

No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:43

You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.

Luke 18:2

He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,