Genesis 42:21

The brothers confess to one another their guilt over how they treated Joseph long ago. Conscience, awakened by distress, links their present trouble to past sin.

Cross-references · 26

• Hos 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
• Gen 37:23–28So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the robe of many colors he was wearing—
• Mark 9:43–45If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
• Job 36:8–9And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
• Gen 41:9Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
• Matt 7:2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
• Judg 1:7Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
• Jer 34:17Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
• 2 Sam 12:13Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
• 1 Kgs 17:18“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”
• Mark 9:48where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’
• Prov 1:27–28when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
• Job 34:31–32Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.
• Num 32:23But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Prov 28:17A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.
• Jas 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Luke 16:28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’
• Jer 2:17Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
• Matt 27:3–4When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.
• Acts 19:18Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.
• Prov 21:13Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
• Jer 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
• Prov 24:11–12Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
• Jer 4:18“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
• Job 33:27–28Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

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