Genesis 37:26

Joseph Sold Into Slavery

²⁵ And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. ²⁶ And Judah said unto his brothers, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers were content.

For Us

It is I

Guilty Conscience

Judah

Genesis 37:20

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast has devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Genesis 4:10

And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries unto me from the ground.

Genesis 25:32

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point of death: and what profit shall this birthright be to me?

Deuteronomy 17:8

If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between bloodsheds, between legal rights, and between assaults, being matters of controversy within your gates: then shall you arise, and get you up into the place which the LORD your God shall choose;

2 Samuel 1:16

And David said unto him, Your blood be upon your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain the LORD's anointed.

Job 16:18

O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place.

Psalm 30:9

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

Jeremiah 41:8

But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he refrained, and killed them not with their brethren.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

Matthew 16:26

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Romans 6:21

What fruit had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.