Then Israel said to him, ‘Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing, and bring word back to me.’ So he sent him from the Hebron Valley, and he went to Shechem.
Genesis 41:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘I am not able to,’ Joseph answered Pharaoh. ‘It is God who will give Pharaoh a favourable answer.’ , Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Joseph answered Pharaoh, It is not in me; God [not I] will give Pharaoh a [favorable] answer of peace. American Standard Version (1901) And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace. Common English Bible Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It’s not me. God will give Pharaoh a favorable response.” Catholic Public Domain Version Joseph responded, "Apart from me, God will respond favorably to Pharaoh." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer. |
Then Israel said to him, ‘Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing, and bring word back to me.’ So he sent him from the Hebron Valley, and he went to Shechem.
‘We had dreams,’ they said to him, ‘but there is no one to interpret them.’ Then Joseph said to them, ‘Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.’
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, ‘In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, ‘Pharaoh’s dreams mean the same thing. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
‘It is just as I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.
He answered, ‘If the Lord doesn’t help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing-floor or the winepress? ’
The king said to Daniel, ‘Your God is indeed God of gods, Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, since you were able to reveal this mystery.’
I am pleased to tell you about the miracles and wonders the Most High God has done for me.
So he answered me, ‘This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: “Not by strength or by might, but by my Spirit,” says the Lord of Armies.
he said: ‘Listen to what I say: If there is a prophet among you from the Lord, I make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.
saying, ‘If you knew this day what would bring peace #– #but now it is hidden from your eyes.
When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: ‘Fellow Israelites, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?
Then, taking him by the right hand he raised him up, and at once his feet and ankles became strong.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
It is not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.
The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children for ever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.