Quotes About Loyalty

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.

I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.

Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!

But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?

But he refused. “Look,” he said to his masterís wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

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

When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.

Some time later, the kingís cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaohís hand.

We are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.”

And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

Then Reuben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him.”

I will guarantee his safety. You may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my life.

If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”

“As you say,” replied the steward. “But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame.”

But Joseph replied, “Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace.”

My lord asked his servants, ëDo you have a father or a brother?í

So we said to my lord, ëThe boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.í

Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boyís safety to my father, saying, ëIf I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.í

Now please let your servant stay here as my lordís slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.

“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lordís eyes, and we will be Pharaohís servants.”

Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

You shall have no other gods before Me.