But Laban said to him, "If now it pleases you, stay with me; I have divined that the LORD has blessed me on your account."

'Is not this the one from which my lord drinks and which he indeed uses for divination? You have done wrong in doing this.'"

Joseph said to them, "What is this deed that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed practice divination?"

"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

I said to myself, "Behold, I have magnified and increased wisdom more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge."

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;

For to this end also I wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

Because of the proof given by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to your confession of the gospel of Christ and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all,

since you are seeking for proof of the Christ who speaks in me, and who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.

But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.