Genesis 50:17

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Summary

So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

Forgive

Colossians 3:12

They did

James 5:16

Servants

Philemon 1:8

Wept

Genesis 42:21

Genesis 45:4

Bible References

Forgive

And let go to us our debts, as we let go to our debtors.

So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if ye let not go each to his brother from your hearts their falls.

Attend to yourselves: and if thy brother sin against thee, censure him; and if he should repent, let him go.

And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

They did

And you, ye even purposed evil against me; God purposed it for good, for the sake of doing as this day, to preserve alive much people.

He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me;

For they stretched out evil upon thee: they purposed a device, they will not prevail.

He covering his transgression shall not prosper: but he confessing and forsaking, shall be compassionated.

Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.

Servants

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaak was not with me, then now, empty thou hadst sent me away. My affliction and the labor of my hand God saw and he rebuked yesterday.

By the God of thy father, and he will help thee, and by the Almighty, and he will bless thee with the blessing of the heavens above, the blessing of the sea lying under, the blessing of the breasts and the womb.

And whoever should give to drink one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

And the king having answered, will say to them, Trull I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me.

And the ten having heard, began to feel pain about James and John.

Wherefore then as we have time, let us work good to all, and chiefly to them of the household of faith.

Wherefore, having much freedom of speech in Christ to enjoin thee what concerns thee,

Wept

And they will say, a man to his brother, Truly we guilty concerning our brother, when we saw the straits of his soul in his entreating us, and we heard him not; for this, these straits are come to us.

And Joseph will say to his brethren, Come near now to me: and they will come near, and he will say, I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold me into Egypt