if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined in your prison, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households,

Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, `By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.

Bring your youngest brother to me; then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver to you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.'"

He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,