Genesis 44:1-34

(1)  Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack,

(2)  and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain." And he did as Joseph told him.

(3)  As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their donkeys.

(4)  They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?

(5)  Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.'"

(6)  When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words.

(7)  They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

(8)  Behold, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?

(9)  Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord's servants."

(10)  He said, "Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent."

(11)  Then each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.

(12)  And he searched, beginning with the eld estandendingwiththeyoungest.Andthecupwasfound in Benjamin's sack.

(13)  Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

(14)  When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground.

(15)  Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?"

(16)  And Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord's servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found."

(17)  But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father."

(18)  Then Judah went up to him and said, "O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.

(19)  My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

(20)  And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'

(21)  Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

(22)  We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

(23)  Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.'

(24)  "When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

(25)  And when our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food,'

(26)  we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'

(27)  Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.

(28)  One left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.

(29)  If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.'

(30)  "Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy's life,

(31)  as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

(32)  For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'

(33)  Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

(34)  For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father."

Ephesians 4:1-32

(1)  I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

(2)  with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

(3)  eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

(4)  There is one body and one Spirit--just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call--

(5)  one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

(6)  one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

(7)  But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.

(8)  Therefore it says, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men."

(9)  (In saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

(10)  He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

(11)  And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,

(12)  to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

(13)  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

(14)  so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

(15)  Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

(16)  from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

(17)  Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

(18)  They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

(19)  They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

(20)  But that is not the way you learned Christ!--

(21)  assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,

(22)  to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,

(23)  and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

(24)  and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

(25)  Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

(26)  Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

(27)  and give no opportunity to the devil.

(28)  Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

(29)  Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

(30)  And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

(31)  Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

(32)  Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.