Genesis 40:23

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.

I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—

But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;

Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.

The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.

Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.

The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!

He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.

until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it.

they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home. So he lived among the people.

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.

The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father: