Now do not be upset or blame yourselves because you sold me here. It was really God who sent me ahead of you to save people's lives.

You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name.

Jesus answered, "You have authority over me only because it was given to you by God. So the man who handed me over to you is guilty of a worse sin."

So then, everything depends, not on what we humans want or do, but only on God's mercy.

The king said to Joseph, "God has shown you all this, so it is obvious that you have greater wisdom and insight than anyone else.

I now appoint you governor over all Egypt."

He gave him the second royal chariot to ride in, and his guard of honor went ahead of him and cried out, "Make way! Make way!" And so Joseph was appointed governor over all Egypt.

He gave Joseph the Egyptian name Zaphenath Paneah, and he gave him a wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in the city of Heliopolis. Joseph was thirty years old when he began to serve the king of Egypt. He left the king's court and traveled all over the land.

During the seven years of plenty the land produced abundant crops,

Micah said, "Stay with me. Be my adviser and priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, some clothes, and your food."

I was like a father to the poor and took the side of strangers in trouble.

He put him in charge of his government and made him ruler over all the land,

with power over the king's officials and authority to instruct his advisers.