Quotes About Faith

and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.

She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”

Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.

And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”

“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”

they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”

and he told them, “I can see from your fatherís countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.

And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.

If he said, ëThe speckled will be your wages,í then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ëThe streaked will be your wages,í then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.

In that dream the angel of God said to me, ëJacob!í And I replied, ëHere I am.í

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.í”

And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our fatherís house?

Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,

and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her fatherís household idols.

Now you have gone off because you long for your fatherís house. But why have you stolen my gods?”

If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

Now Rachel had taken Labanís household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.