Quotes About Courage

Although Potipharís wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

One day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside.

She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,

So Potipharís wife kept Josephís cloak beside her until his master came home.

but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

Take your brother as well, and return to the man at once.

And he chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.

When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.

Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

Gad will be attacked by raiders, but he will attack their heels.

Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.

So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”

So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.

And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.

and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.

Then his sister said to Pharaohís daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.

Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”