Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.

Bible References

Spake i

Genesis 37:21
Now Reuben [the eldest] heard this and rescued him from their hands and said, “Let us not take his life.”
Luke 23:41
We are suffering justly, because we are getting what we deserve for what we have done; but this Man has done nothing wrong.”
Romans 2:15
They show that the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts; and their conscience [their sense of right and wrong, their moral choices] bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or perhaps defending them