“He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Judges 8 contains 35 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.