Bible Verses Like Genesis 47:19

“Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.”

 

Bible verses related to Genesis 47:19 (similar cross-references)


Nehemiah 5:2-3 - For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.   (Verses like Nehemiah 5:2)

Job 2:4 - And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.   (Verses like Job 2:4)

Lamentations 1:11 - All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.   (Verses like Lamentations 1:11)

Lamentations 5:6 - We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.   (Verses like Lamentations 5:6)

Lamentations 5:9 - We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.   (Verses like Lamentations 5:9)

Matthew 16:26 - For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?   (Verses like Matthew 16:26)

Philippians 3:8-9 - Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:   (Verses like Philippians 3:8)