Cross references
Genesis 50:17
‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.”
When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
Genesis 50:17 has 22 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 6:14–15 (4 votes) and Ephesians 4:32 (4 votes). 13 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Genesis 31 to James 5.
Which verses does Genesis 50:17 point to?
The 20 strongest of 22, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Matthew 6:14–154 votes
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.
- Ephesians 4:324 votes
Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
- Genesis 45:4–53 votes
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
- Genesis 45:83 votes
Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 49:253 votes
by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.
- Psalm 21:113 votes
Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
- Proverbs 28:133 votes
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
- Luke 17:3–43 votes
Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
- Genesis 31:422 votes
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.”
- Genesis 42:21–242 votes
Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.” And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!” …
- Genesis 50:202 votes
As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
- Job 33:27–282 votes
- Matthew 6:122 votes
- Matthew 10:422 votes
- Matthew 18:352 votes
- Matthew 25:402 votes
- Mark 10:412 votes
- Galatians 6:102 votes
- Galatians 6:162 votes
- Colossians 3:12–132 votes
Which verses point to Genesis 50:17?
The 10 strongest of 13.