Genesis 39:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So 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?

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  • Gen 42:18 : 18 And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:
  • 2 Sam 12:13 : 13 And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.
  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.
  • Gen 20:6 : 6 And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.
  • Gen 24:2 : 2 And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:
  • Gen 41:40 : 40 You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.
  • Gen 20:3 : 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.
  • Prov 6:29 : 29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
  • Prov 6:32 : 32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
  • Jer 5:8-9 : 8 They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife. 9 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
  • Jer 28:16 : 16 For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will send you away from off the face of the earth: this year death will overtake you, because you have said words against the Lord.
  • Jer 50:7 : 7 They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
  • Luke 12:48 : 48 But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.
  • 1 Cor 4:2 : 2 And it is right for such servants to be safe persons.
  • 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, 10 Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses, 20 Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings, 21 Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
  • Titus 2:10 : 10 Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
  • 1 John 3:9 : 9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
  • Neh 6:11 : 11 And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.
  • Job 31:9-9 : 9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door; 10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body. 11 For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges: 12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
  • Job 31:23 : 23 For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.
  • Lev 6:2 : 2 Give orders to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law for the burned offering: the offering is to be on the fire-wood on the altar all night till the morning; and the fire of the altar is to be kept burning.
  • Lev 20:10 : 10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
  • Num 32:23 : 23 But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.
  • 2 Sam 11:27 : 27 And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

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    4And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had.

    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;

  • Gen 39:10-19
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    10And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.

    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.

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    39And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:

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    6And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.

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    7And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:

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    15And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?

  • Num 5:13
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    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;

  • Gen 12:18-19
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    18Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

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    10Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.

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    44Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.

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    37And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

  • Gen 39:2
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    2And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian.