Genesis 39:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.

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  • Gen 39:8 : 8 But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;
  • Prov 1:15 : 15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
  • Prov 5:8 : 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
  • Prov 6:25-26 : 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner. 26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
  • Prov 7:13 : 13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
  • Prov 9:14 : 14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,
  • Prov 9:16 : 16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
  • 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Keep from every form of evil.
  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 39:11-20
    10 verses
    84%

    11Now one day he went into the house to do his work; and not one of the men of the house was inside.

    12And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.

    13And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,

    14She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry;

    15And hearing it he went running out without his coat.

    16And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.

    17Then she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you have taken into our house came in to make sport of me;

    18And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat.

    19And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry.

    20And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house.

  • Gen 39:5-9
    5 verses
    83%

    5And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.

    6And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.

    7And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.

    8But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;

    9So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

  • Matt 1:19
    71%

    19And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately.

  • Gen 39:2
    71%

    2And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian.

  • 2 Sam 13:14
    70%

    14But he would not give attention to what she said: but being stronger than she, he took her by force, and had connection with her.

  • Matt 1:24
    69%

    24And Joseph did as the angel of the Lord had said to him, and took her as his wife;

  • Num 5:13
    69%

    13By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;