Romans 3:7 It’s simply perverse to say, “If my lies serve to show off God’s truth all the more gloriously, why blame me? I’m doing God a favor.” Some people are actuall...

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逐节对照

The Message - It’s simply perverse to say, “If my lies serve to show off God’s truth all the more gloriously, why blame me? I’m doing God a favor.” Some people are actually trying to put such words in our mouths, claiming that we go around saying, “The more evil we do, the more good God does, so let’s just do it!” That’s pure slander, as I’m sure you’ll agree.
新标点和合本 - 若　神的真实，因我的虚谎越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还受审判，好像罪人呢？
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 若上帝的真实因我的虚谎越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还像罪人一样受审判呢？
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 若　神的真实因我的虚谎越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还像罪人一样受审判呢？
当代译本 - 也许有人说：“如果我们的虚谎凸显出上帝的真实，增加祂的荣耀，为什么祂还要把我们当作罪人审判呢？”
圣经新译本 - 但是　神的诚实，如果因我的虚谎而更加显出他的荣耀来，为什么我还要像罪人一样受审判呢？
中文标准译本 - 那么，如果神的真实因我的虚谎使他的荣耀更加丰盛，为什么我还要像罪人一样被定罪呢？
现代标点和合本 - 若神的真实因我的虚谎越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还受审判，好像罪人呢？
和合本（拼音版） - 若上帝的真实，因我的虚谎越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还受审判，好像罪人呢？
New International Version - Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”
New International Reader's Version - Someone might argue, “When I lie, it becomes clearer that God is truthful. It makes his glory shine more brightly. Why then does he find me guilty of sin?”
English Standard Version - But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
New Living Translation - “But,” someone might still argue, “how can God condemn me as a sinner if my dishonesty highlights his truthfulness and brings him more glory?”
Christian Standard Bible - But if by my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?
New American Standard Bible - But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?
New King James Version - For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
Amplified Bible - But [as you might say] if through my lie God’s truth was magnified and abounded to His glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner?
American Standard Version - But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
King James Version - For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
New English Translation - For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?
World English Bible - For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
新標點和合本 - 若神的真實，因我的虛謊越發顯出他的榮耀，為甚麼我還受審判，好像罪人呢？
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 若上帝的真實因我的虛謊越發顯出他的榮耀，為甚麼我還像罪人一樣受審判呢？
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 若　神的真實因我的虛謊越發顯出他的榮耀，為甚麼我還像罪人一樣受審判呢？
當代譯本 - 也許有人說：「如果我們的虛謊凸顯出上帝的真實，增加祂的榮耀，為什麼祂還要把我們當作罪人審判呢？」
聖經新譯本 - 但是　神的誠實，如果因我的虛謊而更加顯出他的榮耀來，為甚麼我還要像罪人一樣受審判呢？
呂振中譯本 - 但上帝的真實如果因我的虛假越發彰顯他的榮耀來，為甚麼我還被斷為罪人呢？
中文標準譯本 - 那麼，如果神的真實因我的虛謊使他的榮耀更加豐盛，為什麼我還要像罪人一樣被定罪呢？
現代標點和合本 - 若神的真實因我的虛謊越發顯出他的榮耀，為什麼我還受審判，好像罪人呢？
文理和合譯本 - 若上帝之誠、因我之偽而益致其榮、則我何仍見鞫如罪人乎、
文理委辦譯本 - 曰、若我之偽、益彰上帝之誠以致其榮、則我何反見擬如罪人乎、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 若天主之真、因我之偽、而愈顯以致其榮、則我何又見擬如罪人乎、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 曰：今夫天主之真、既賴吾人之偽、而發揚光大、則吾之被判為罪人、不亦枉乎？
Nueva Versión Internacional - Alguien podría objetar: «Si mi mentira destaca la verdad de Dios y así aumenta su gloria, ¿por qué todavía se me juzga como pecador?
현대인의 성경 - 또 어떤 사람들은 “나의 거짓말로 하나님의 진리가 더욱 드러나서 그분께 영광이 되었다면 왜 내가 죄인 취급을 받아야 하느냐?” 고 주장하고 있습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Но если моя ложь делает ярче истину Божью и, таким образом, умножает Его славу, то почему же я судим как грешник?
Восточный перевод - Но если моя ложь делает ярче истину Всевышнего и, таким образом, умножает Его славу, то почему же я судим как грешник?
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Но если моя ложь делает ярче истину Аллаха и, таким образом, умножает Его славу, то почему же я судим как грешник?
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Но если моя ложь делает ярче истину Всевышнего и, таким образом, умножает Его славу, то почему же я судим как грешник?
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ou, dira-t-on encore, si mon mensonge fait d’autant mieux éclater que Dieu est véridique et contribue ainsi à sa gloire, pourquoi serais-je encore condamné comme pécheur ?
リビングバイブル - もし、私がうそをついたとします。それによって神の真実がはっきりと際立ち、私の不真実が、かえって神の栄光を輝かしたとしたら、神は私を罪人としてさばくことなどできなくなってしまいます。
Nestle Aland 28 - εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι;
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι?
Nova Versão Internacional - Alguém pode alegar ainda: “Se a minha mentira ressalta a veracidade de Deus, aumentando assim a sua glória, por que sou condenado como pecador?”
Hoffnung für alle - Aber fragen wir noch einmal: Wie kann Gott mich als Sünder ansehen und verurteilen, wenn doch erst durch meine Falschheit seine Wahrheit in ihrer ganzen Größe aufstrahlt?
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Cũng theo lập luận trên, có người thắc mắc: nếu sự lừa dối của tôi làm sáng tỏ đức chân thật của Đức Chúa Trời, sao tôi còn bị Ngài xét xử như người có tội?
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - บางคนอาจแย้งว่า “ในเมื่อความอสัตย์ของข้าพเจ้าทำให้เห็นความสัตย์จริงของพระเจ้าเด่นชัดยิ่งขึ้น ดังนั้นจึงเป็นการเพิ่มพูนพระเกียรติสิริของพระองค์ แล้วทำไมข้าพเจ้ายังถูกตัดสินลงโทษว่าเป็นคนบาปเล่า?”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แต่ถ้าการมดเท็จของข้าพเจ้าทำให้ความสัตย์จริงของพระเจ้าปรากฏชัดยิ่งขึ้น และเพิ่มพูนพระบารมีของพระองค์แล้ว ทำไมข้าพเจ้าจึงยังถูกกล่าวโทษเช่นคนบาปเล่า

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Genesis 37:8 - His brothers said, “So! You’re going to rule us? You’re going to boss us around?” And they hated him more than ever because of his dreams and the way he talked.
Genesis 37:9 - He had another dream and told this one also to his brothers: “I dreamed another dream—the sun and moon and eleven stars bowed down to me!”
Exodus 3:19 - “I know that the king of Egypt won’t let you go unless forced to, so I’ll intervene and hit Egypt where it hurts—oh, my miracles will send them reeling!—after which they’ll be glad to send you off. I’ll see to it that this people get a hearty send-off by the Egyptians—when you leave, you won’t leave empty-handed! Each woman will ask her neighbor and any guests in her house for objects of silver and gold, for jewelry and extra clothes; you’ll put them on your sons and daughters. Oh, you’ll clean the Egyptians out!”
Exodus 14:5 - When the king of Egypt was told that the people were gone, he and his servants changed their minds. They said, “What have we done, letting Israel, our slave labor, go free?” So he had his chariots harnessed up and got his army together. He took six hundred of his best chariots, with the rest of the Egyptian chariots and their drivers coming along.
Genesis 44:1 - Joseph ordered his house steward: “Fill the men’s bags with food—all they can carry—and replace each one’s money at the top of the bag. Then put my chalice, my silver chalice, in the top of the bag of the youngest, along with the money for his food.” He did as Joseph ordered.
Genesis 44:3 - At break of day the men were sent off with their donkeys. They were barely out of the city when Joseph said to his house steward, “Run after them. When you catch up with them, say, ‘Why did you pay me back evil for good? This is the chalice my master drinks from; he also uses it for divination. This is outrageous!’”
Genesis 44:6 - He caught up with them and repeated all this word for word.
Genesis 44:7 - They said, “What is my master talking about? We would never do anything like that! Why, the money we found in our bags earlier, we brought back all the way from Canaan—do you think we’d turn right around and steal it back from your master? If that chalice is found on any of us, he’ll die; and the rest of us will be your master’s slaves.”
Genesis 44:10 - The steward said, “Very well then, but we won’t go that far. Whoever is found with the chalice will be my slave; the rest of you can go free.”
Genesis 44:11 - They outdid each other in putting their bags on the ground and opening them up for inspection. The steward searched their bags, going from oldest to youngest. The chalice showed up in Benjamin’s bag.
Genesis 44:13 - They ripped their clothes in despair, loaded up their donkeys, and went back to the city.
Genesis 44:14 - Joseph was still at home when Judah and his brothers got back. They threw themselves down on the ground in front of him.
Genesis 50:18 - Then the brothers went in person to him, threw themselves on the ground before him and said, “We’ll be your slaves.”
Genesis 50:19 - Joseph replied, “Don’t be afraid. Do I act for God? Don’t you see, you planned evil against me but God used those same plans for my good, as you see all around you right now—life for many people. Easy now, you have nothing to fear; I’ll take care of you and your children.” He reassured them, speaking with them heart-to-heart.
1 Kings 13:18 - But he said, “I am also a prophet, just like you. And an angel came to me with a message from God: ‘Bring him home with you, and give him a good meal!’” But the man was lying. So the holy man went home with him and they had a meal together.
Romans 9:19 - Are you going to object, “So how can God blame us for anything since he’s in charge of everything? If the big decisions are already made, what say do we have in it?”
Romans 9:20 - Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn’t talk back to the fingers that mold it, saying, “Why did you shape me like this?” Isn’t it obvious that a potter has a perfect right to shape one lump of clay into a vase for holding flowers and another into a pot for cooking beans? If God needs one style of pottery especially designed to show his angry displeasure and another style carefully crafted to show his glorious goodness, isn’t that all right? Either or both happens to Jews, but it also happens to the other people. Hosea put it well: I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, “You’re nobody!” they’re calling you “God’s living children.” Isaiah maintained this same emphasis: If each grain of sand on the seashore were numbered and the sum labeled “chosen of God,” They’d be numbers still, not names; salvation comes by personal selection. God doesn’t count us; he calls us by name. Arithmetic is not his focus. Isaiah had looked ahead and spoken the truth: If our powerful God had not provided us a legacy of living children, We would have ended up like ghost towns, like Sodom and Gomorrah. How can we sum this up? All those people who didn’t seem interested in what God was doing actually embraced what God was doing as he straightened out their lives. And Israel, who seemed so interested in reading and talking about what God was doing, missed it. How could they miss it? Because instead of trusting God, they took over. They were absorbed in what they themselves were doing. They were so absorbed in their “God projects” that they didn’t notice God right in front of them, like a huge rock in the middle of the road. And so they stumbled into him and went sprawling. Isaiah (again!) gives us the metaphor for pulling this together: Careful! I’ve put a huge stone on the road to Mount Zion, a stone you can’t get around. But the stone is me! If you’re looking for me, you’ll find me on the way, not in the way.
Acts 13:29 - “After they had done everything the prophets said they would do, they took him down from the cross and buried him. And then God raised him from death. There is no disputing that—he appeared over and over again many times and places to those who had known him well in the Galilean years, and these same people continue to give witness that he is alive.
Matthew 26:34 - “Don’t be so sure,” Jesus said. “This very night, before the rooster crows up the dawn, you will deny me three times.”
1 Kings 13:26 - When the prophet who had gotten him off track heard it, he said, “It’s the holy man who disobeyed God’s strict orders. God turned him over to the lion who knocked him around and killed him, just as God had told him.”
1 Kings 13:27 - The prophet told his sons, “Saddle my donkey.” They did it. He rode out and found the corpse in a heap in the road, with the lion and the donkey standing there. The lion hadn’t bothered either the corpse or the donkey. The old prophet loaded the corpse of the holy man on his donkey and returned it to his own town to give it a decent burial. He placed the body in his own tomb. The people mourned, saying, “A sad day, brother!”
1 Kings 13:31 - After the funeral, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the same tomb where the holy man is buried, my bones alongside his bones. The message that he preached by God’s command against the Altar at Bethel and against all the sex-and-religion shrines in the towns of Samaria will come true.”
2 Kings 8:10 - Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘Don’t worry; you’ll live.’ The fact is, though—God showed me—that he’s doomed to die.” Elisha then stared hard at Hazael, reading his heart. Hazael felt exposed and dropped his eyes. Then the Holy Man wept.
2 Kings 8:12 - Hazael said, “Why does my master weep?” “Because,” said Elisha, “I know what you’re going to do to the children of Israel: burn down their forts, murder their youth, smash their babies, rip open their pregnant women.”
2 Kings 8:13 - Hazael said, “Am I a mongrel dog that I’d do such a horrible thing?” “God showed me,” said Elisha, “that you’ll be king of Aram.”
2 Kings 8:14 - Hazael left Elisha and returned to his master, who asked, “So, what did Elisha tell you?” “He told me, ‘Don’t worry; you’ll live.’”
2 Kings 8:15 - But the very next day, someone took a heavy quilt, soaked it in water, covered the king’s face, and suffocated him. Now Hazael was king.
Matthew 26:69 - All this time, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard. One servant girl came up to him and said, “You were with Jesus the Galilean.”
Matthew 26:70 - In front of everybody there, he denied it. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Matthew 26:71 - As he moved over toward the gate, someone else said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”
Matthew 26:72 - Again he denied it, salting his denial with an oath: “I swear, I never laid eyes on the man.”
Matthew 26:73 - Shortly after that, some bystanders approached Peter. “You’ve got to be one of them. Your accent gives you away.”
Matthew 26:74 - Then he got really nervous and swore. “I don’t know the man!” Just then a rooster crowed. Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” He went out and cried and cried and cried.

逐节对照

交叉引用

The Message - It’s simply perverse to say, “If my lies serve to show off God’s truth all the more gloriously, why blame me? I’m doing God a favor.” Some people are actually trying to put such words in our mouths, claiming that we go around saying, “The more evil we do, the more good God does, so let’s just do it!” That’s pure slander, as I’m sure you’ll agree.
新标点和合本 - 若　神的真实，因我的虚谎越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还受审判，好像罪人呢？
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 若上帝的真实因我的虚谎越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还像罪人一样受审判呢？
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 若　神的真实因我的虚谎越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还像罪人一样受审判呢？
当代译本 - 也许有人说：“如果我们的虚谎凸显出上帝的真实，增加祂的荣耀，为什么祂还要把我们当作罪人审判呢？”
圣经新译本 - 但是　神的诚实，如果因我的虚谎而更加显出他的荣耀来，为什么我还要像罪人一样受审判呢？
中文标准译本 - 那么，如果神的真实因我的虚谎使他的荣耀更加丰盛，为什么我还要像罪人一样被定罪呢？
现代标点和合本 - 若神的真实因我的虚谎越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还受审判，好像罪人呢？
和合本（拼音版） - 若上帝的真实，因我的虚谎越发显出他的荣耀，为什么我还受审判，好像罪人呢？
New International Version - Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”
New International Reader's Version - Someone might argue, “When I lie, it becomes clearer that God is truthful. It makes his glory shine more brightly. Why then does he find me guilty of sin?”
English Standard Version - But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
New Living Translation - “But,” someone might still argue, “how can God condemn me as a sinner if my dishonesty highlights his truthfulness and brings him more glory?”
Christian Standard Bible - But if by my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?
New American Standard Bible - But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?
New King James Version - For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
Amplified Bible - But [as you might say] if through my lie God’s truth was magnified and abounded to His glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner?
American Standard Version - But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
King James Version - For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
New English Translation - For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?
World English Bible - For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
新標點和合本 - 若神的真實，因我的虛謊越發顯出他的榮耀，為甚麼我還受審判，好像罪人呢？
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 若上帝的真實因我的虛謊越發顯出他的榮耀，為甚麼我還像罪人一樣受審判呢？
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 若　神的真實因我的虛謊越發顯出他的榮耀，為甚麼我還像罪人一樣受審判呢？
當代譯本 - 也許有人說：「如果我們的虛謊凸顯出上帝的真實，增加祂的榮耀，為什麼祂還要把我們當作罪人審判呢？」
聖經新譯本 - 但是　神的誠實，如果因我的虛謊而更加顯出他的榮耀來，為甚麼我還要像罪人一樣受審判呢？
呂振中譯本 - 但上帝的真實如果因我的虛假越發彰顯他的榮耀來，為甚麼我還被斷為罪人呢？
中文標準譯本 - 那麼，如果神的真實因我的虛謊使他的榮耀更加豐盛，為什麼我還要像罪人一樣被定罪呢？
現代標點和合本 - 若神的真實因我的虛謊越發顯出他的榮耀，為什麼我還受審判，好像罪人呢？
文理和合譯本 - 若上帝之誠、因我之偽而益致其榮、則我何仍見鞫如罪人乎、
文理委辦譯本 - 曰、若我之偽、益彰上帝之誠以致其榮、則我何反見擬如罪人乎、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 若天主之真、因我之偽、而愈顯以致其榮、則我何又見擬如罪人乎、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 曰：今夫天主之真、既賴吾人之偽、而發揚光大、則吾之被判為罪人、不亦枉乎？
Nueva Versión Internacional - Alguien podría objetar: «Si mi mentira destaca la verdad de Dios y así aumenta su gloria, ¿por qué todavía se me juzga como pecador?
현대인의 성경 - 또 어떤 사람들은 “나의 거짓말로 하나님의 진리가 더욱 드러나서 그분께 영광이 되었다면 왜 내가 죄인 취급을 받아야 하느냐?” 고 주장하고 있습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Но если моя ложь делает ярче истину Божью и, таким образом, умножает Его славу, то почему же я судим как грешник?
Восточный перевод - Но если моя ложь делает ярче истину Всевышнего и, таким образом, умножает Его славу, то почему же я судим как грешник?
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Но если моя ложь делает ярче истину Аллаха и, таким образом, умножает Его славу, то почему же я судим как грешник?
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Но если моя ложь делает ярче истину Всевышнего и, таким образом, умножает Его славу, то почему же я судим как грешник?
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ou, dira-t-on encore, si mon mensonge fait d’autant mieux éclater que Dieu est véridique et contribue ainsi à sa gloire, pourquoi serais-je encore condamné comme pécheur ?
リビングバイブル - もし、私がうそをついたとします。それによって神の真実がはっきりと際立ち、私の不真実が、かえって神の栄光を輝かしたとしたら、神は私を罪人としてさばくことなどできなくなってしまいます。
Nestle Aland 28 - εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι;
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ ψεύσματι ἐπερίσσευσεν εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, τί ἔτι κἀγὼ ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸς κρίνομαι?
Nova Versão Internacional - Alguém pode alegar ainda: “Se a minha mentira ressalta a veracidade de Deus, aumentando assim a sua glória, por que sou condenado como pecador?”
Hoffnung für alle - Aber fragen wir noch einmal: Wie kann Gott mich als Sünder ansehen und verurteilen, wenn doch erst durch meine Falschheit seine Wahrheit in ihrer ganzen Größe aufstrahlt?
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Cũng theo lập luận trên, có người thắc mắc: nếu sự lừa dối của tôi làm sáng tỏ đức chân thật của Đức Chúa Trời, sao tôi còn bị Ngài xét xử như người có tội?
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - บางคนอาจแย้งว่า “ในเมื่อความอสัตย์ของข้าพเจ้าทำให้เห็นความสัตย์จริงของพระเจ้าเด่นชัดยิ่งขึ้น ดังนั้นจึงเป็นการเพิ่มพูนพระเกียรติสิริของพระองค์ แล้วทำไมข้าพเจ้ายังถูกตัดสินลงโทษว่าเป็นคนบาปเล่า?”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แต่ถ้าการมดเท็จของข้าพเจ้าทำให้ความสัตย์จริงของพระเจ้าปรากฏชัดยิ่งขึ้น และเพิ่มพูนพระบารมีของพระองค์แล้ว ทำไมข้าพเจ้าจึงยังถูกกล่าวโทษเช่นคนบาปเล่า

Genesis 37:8 - His brothers said, “So! You’re going to rule us? You’re going to boss us around?” And they hated him more than ever because of his dreams and the way he talked.
Genesis 37:9 - He had another dream and told this one also to his brothers: “I dreamed another dream—the sun and moon and eleven stars bowed down to me!”
Exodus 3:19 - “I know that the king of Egypt won’t let you go unless forced to, so I’ll intervene and hit Egypt where it hurts—oh, my miracles will send them reeling!—after which they’ll be glad to send you off. I’ll see to it that this people get a hearty send-off by the Egyptians—when you leave, you won’t leave empty-handed! Each woman will ask her neighbor and any guests in her house for objects of silver and gold, for jewelry and extra clothes; you’ll put them on your sons and daughters. Oh, you’ll clean the Egyptians out!”
Exodus 14:5 - When the king of Egypt was told that the people were gone, he and his servants changed their minds. They said, “What have we done, letting Israel, our slave labor, go free?” So he had his chariots harnessed up and got his army together. He took six hundred of his best chariots, with the rest of the Egyptian chariots and their drivers coming along.
Genesis 44:1 - Joseph ordered his house steward: “Fill the men’s bags with food—all they can carry—and replace each one’s money at the top of the bag. Then put my chalice, my silver chalice, in the top of the bag of the youngest, along with the money for his food.” He did as Joseph ordered.
Genesis 44:3 - At break of day the men were sent off with their donkeys. They were barely out of the city when Joseph said to his house steward, “Run after them. When you catch up with them, say, ‘Why did you pay me back evil for good? This is the chalice my master drinks from; he also uses it for divination. This is outrageous!’”
Genesis 44:6 - He caught up with them and repeated all this word for word.
Genesis 44:7 - They said, “What is my master talking about? We would never do anything like that! Why, the money we found in our bags earlier, we brought back all the way from Canaan—do you think we’d turn right around and steal it back from your master? If that chalice is found on any of us, he’ll die; and the rest of us will be your master’s slaves.”
Genesis 44:10 - The steward said, “Very well then, but we won’t go that far. Whoever is found with the chalice will be my slave; the rest of you can go free.”
Genesis 44:11 - They outdid each other in putting their bags on the ground and opening them up for inspection. The steward searched their bags, going from oldest to youngest. The chalice showed up in Benjamin’s bag.
Genesis 44:13 - They ripped their clothes in despair, loaded up their donkeys, and went back to the city.
Genesis 44:14 - Joseph was still at home when Judah and his brothers got back. They threw themselves down on the ground in front of him.
Genesis 50:18 - Then the brothers went in person to him, threw themselves on the ground before him and said, “We’ll be your slaves.”
Genesis 50:19 - Joseph replied, “Don’t be afraid. Do I act for God? Don’t you see, you planned evil against me but God used those same plans for my good, as you see all around you right now—life for many people. Easy now, you have nothing to fear; I’ll take care of you and your children.” He reassured them, speaking with them heart-to-heart.
1 Kings 13:18 - But he said, “I am also a prophet, just like you. And an angel came to me with a message from God: ‘Bring him home with you, and give him a good meal!’” But the man was lying. So the holy man went home with him and they had a meal together.
Romans 9:19 - Are you going to object, “So how can God blame us for anything since he’s in charge of everything? If the big decisions are already made, what say do we have in it?”
Romans 9:20 - Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn’t talk back to the fingers that mold it, saying, “Why did you shape me like this?” Isn’t it obvious that a potter has a perfect right to shape one lump of clay into a vase for holding flowers and another into a pot for cooking beans? If God needs one style of pottery especially designed to show his angry displeasure and another style carefully crafted to show his glorious goodness, isn’t that all right? Either or both happens to Jews, but it also happens to the other people. Hosea put it well: I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, “You’re nobody!” they’re calling you “God’s living children.” Isaiah maintained this same emphasis: If each grain of sand on the seashore were numbered and the sum labeled “chosen of God,” They’d be numbers still, not names; salvation comes by personal selection. God doesn’t count us; he calls us by name. Arithmetic is not his focus. Isaiah had looked ahead and spoken the truth: If our powerful God had not provided us a legacy of living children, We would have ended up like ghost towns, like Sodom and Gomorrah. How can we sum this up? All those people who didn’t seem interested in what God was doing actually embraced what God was doing as he straightened out their lives. And Israel, who seemed so interested in reading and talking about what God was doing, missed it. How could they miss it? Because instead of trusting God, they took over. They were absorbed in what they themselves were doing. They were so absorbed in their “God projects” that they didn’t notice God right in front of them, like a huge rock in the middle of the road. And so they stumbled into him and went sprawling. Isaiah (again!) gives us the metaphor for pulling this together: Careful! I’ve put a huge stone on the road to Mount Zion, a stone you can’t get around. But the stone is me! If you’re looking for me, you’ll find me on the way, not in the way.
Acts 13:29 - “After they had done everything the prophets said they would do, they took him down from the cross and buried him. And then God raised him from death. There is no disputing that—he appeared over and over again many times and places to those who had known him well in the Galilean years, and these same people continue to give witness that he is alive.
Matthew 26:34 - “Don’t be so sure,” Jesus said. “This very night, before the rooster crows up the dawn, you will deny me three times.”
1 Kings 13:26 - When the prophet who had gotten him off track heard it, he said, “It’s the holy man who disobeyed God’s strict orders. God turned him over to the lion who knocked him around and killed him, just as God had told him.”
1 Kings 13:27 - The prophet told his sons, “Saddle my donkey.” They did it. He rode out and found the corpse in a heap in the road, with the lion and the donkey standing there. The lion hadn’t bothered either the corpse or the donkey. The old prophet loaded the corpse of the holy man on his donkey and returned it to his own town to give it a decent burial. He placed the body in his own tomb. The people mourned, saying, “A sad day, brother!”
1 Kings 13:31 - After the funeral, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the same tomb where the holy man is buried, my bones alongside his bones. The message that he preached by God’s command against the Altar at Bethel and against all the sex-and-religion shrines in the towns of Samaria will come true.”
2 Kings 8:10 - Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘Don’t worry; you’ll live.’ The fact is, though—God showed me—that he’s doomed to die.” Elisha then stared hard at Hazael, reading his heart. Hazael felt exposed and dropped his eyes. Then the Holy Man wept.
2 Kings 8:12 - Hazael said, “Why does my master weep?” “Because,” said Elisha, “I know what you’re going to do to the children of Israel: burn down their forts, murder their youth, smash their babies, rip open their pregnant women.”
2 Kings 8:13 - Hazael said, “Am I a mongrel dog that I’d do such a horrible thing?” “God showed me,” said Elisha, “that you’ll be king of Aram.”
2 Kings 8:14 - Hazael left Elisha and returned to his master, who asked, “So, what did Elisha tell you?” “He told me, ‘Don’t worry; you’ll live.’”
2 Kings 8:15 - But the very next day, someone took a heavy quilt, soaked it in water, covered the king’s face, and suffocated him. Now Hazael was king.
Matthew 26:69 - All this time, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard. One servant girl came up to him and said, “You were with Jesus the Galilean.”
Matthew 26:70 - In front of everybody there, he denied it. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Matthew 26:71 - As he moved over toward the gate, someone else said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”
Matthew 26:72 - Again he denied it, salting his denial with an oath: “I swear, I never laid eyes on the man.”
Matthew 26:73 - Shortly after that, some bystanders approached Peter. “You’ve got to be one of them. Your accent gives you away.”
Matthew 26:74 - Then he got really nervous and swore. “I don’t know the man!” Just then a rooster crowed. Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” He went out and cried and cried and cried.