Genesis 42:21

Joseph Sends Nine Of His Brothers Back To Canaan

²⁰ but bring your youngest brother to me, so your words will be verified and you will not die.” And they did so. ²¹ And they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty regarding our brother [Joseph], because we saw the distress and anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us [to let him go], yet we would not listen [to his cry]; so this distress and anguish has come on us.” ²² Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now the accounting for his blood is required [of us for we are guilty of his death].”

Give Ear

Hear Him

Joseph

Hosea 5:15

I will go away and return to My place [on high]
Until they acknowledge their offense and bear their guilt and seek My face;
In their distress they will earnestly seek Me, saying,

Genesis 37:23-28

Now when Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the [distinctive] multicolored tunic which he was wearing;

Job 36:8-9

“And if they are bound in bonds [of adversity],
And held by cords of affliction,

Genesis 41:9

Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I would mention my faults today.

Numbers 32:23

But if you do not do this, behold, you will have sinned against the Lord; and be sure that your sin will find you out.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather up scraps of food under my table; as I have done [to others], so God has repaid me.” So they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

2 Samuel 12:13

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has allowed your sin to pass [without further punishment]; you shall not die.

1 Kings 17:18

So she said to Elijah, “What [problem] is there between you and me, O man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to mind and to put my son to death?”

Job 33:27-28

“He sings out to other men,
‘I have sinned and perverted that which was right,
And it was not proper for me!

Job 34:31-32

“For has anyone said to God,
‘I have endured my chastisement;
I will not offend anymore;

Proverbs 1:27-28

When your dread and panic come like a storm,
And your disaster comes like a whirlwind,
When anxiety and distress come upon you [as retribution].

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor
Will cry out himself and not be answered.

Proverbs 24:11-12

Rescue those who are being taken away to death,
And those who stagger to the slaughter, Oh hold them back [from their doom]!

Proverbs 28:17

A man who is burdened with the guilt of human blood (murder)
Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him or give him refuge.

Jeremiah 2:17

“Have you not brought this on yourself
By abandoning (rejecting) the Lord your God
When He led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

“Your own wickedness will discipline you,
And your desertion of the faith will punish you.
Know therefore that it is an evil and bitter thing
For you to abandon (reject) the Lord your God,
And for you to be indifferent to Me and dismiss the [reverent] fear of Me,” says the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

“Your ways and your deeds
Have brought these things on you.
This is your tragedy and doom; how bitter,
How it has touched your heart!”

Jeremiah 34:17

“Therefore says the Lord, ‘You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed liberty to your brother and your countryman. Behold (listen very carefully), I am proclaiming liberty to you—[liberty to be put] to the sword, [liberty] to [be ravaged by] the virulent disease, and [liberty] to [be decimated by] famine,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will make you a horror and a warning to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Matthew 7:2

For just as you [hypocritically] judge others [when you are sinful and unrepentant], so will you be judged; and in accordance with your standard of measure [used to pass out judgment], judgment will be measured to you.

Matthew 27:3-4

When Judas, His betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was gripped with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,

Mark 9:43-45

If your hand causes you to stumble and sin, cut it off [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It is better for you to enter life crippled, than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,

Mark 9:48

where their worm [that feeds on the dead] does not die, and the fire is not put out.

Luke 16:28

for I have five brothers—in order that he may solemnly warn them and witness to them, so that they too will not come to this place of torment.’

Acts 19:18

Many of those who had become believers were coming, confessing and disclosing their [former sinful] practices.

James 2:13

For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; but [to the one who has shown mercy] mercy triumphs [victoriously] over judgment.

1 John 1:9

If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just [true to His own nature and promises], and will forgive our sins and cleanse us continually from all unrighteousness [our wrongdoing, everything not in conformity with His will and purpose].