Quotes about Trust
So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
- Genesis 39:6
and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
- Genesis 39:7
But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s 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.
- Genesis 39:8
No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
- Genesis 39:9
One day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside.
- Genesis 39:11
When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,
- Genesis 39:13
she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
- Genesis 39:14
So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.
- Genesis 39:16
Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,
- Genesis 39:17
When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
- Genesis 39:19
And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.
- Genesis 39:22
The warden did not concern himself with anything under Joseph’s care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.
- Genesis 39:23