Genesis 39:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

She grabbed him by his outer garment, saying,“Come to bed with me!” But he left his outer garment in her hand and ran outside.

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  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.
  • Prov 5:8 : 8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
  • Prov 6:5 : 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
  • Prov 7:13-27 : 13 So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him, 14 “I have meat from my peace offerings at home; today I have fulfilled my vows! 15 That is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I found you! 16 I have spread my bed with elegant coverings, with richly colored fabric from Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let’s delight ourselves with love’s pleasures. 19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance. 20 He has taken a bag of money with him; he will not return until the end of the month.” 21 She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along. 22 Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare 23 till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life. 24 So now, sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak. 25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways; 26 for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many. 27 Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
  • Gen 39:8 : 8 But he refused, saying to his master’s wife,“Look, my master does not give any thought to his household with me here, and everything that he owns he has put into my care.
  • Gen 39:10 : 10 Even though she continued to speak to Joseph day after day, he did not respond to her invitation to go to bed with her.
  • Ezek 16:30-31 : 30 “‘How sick is your heart, declares the Sovereign LORD, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute. 31 When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment.
  • Prov 1:15 : 15 My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived:“Bad company corrupts good morals.”
  • Mark 14:51-52 : 51 A young man was following him, wearing only a linen cloth. They tried to arrest him, 52 but he ran off naked, leaving his linen cloth behind.
  • 1 Sam 15:27 : 27 When Samuel turned to leave, Saul grabbed the edge of his robe and it tore.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 39:13-20
    8 verses
    93%

    13When she saw that he had left his outer garment in her hand and had run outside,

    14she called for her household servants and said to them,“See, my husband brought in a Hebrew man to us to humiliate us. He tried to go to bed with me, but I screamed loudly.

    15When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside.”

    16So she laid his outer garment beside her until his master came home.

    17This is what she said to him:“That Hebrew slave you brought to us tried to humiliate me,

    18but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his outer garment and ran outside.”

    19When his master heard his wife say,“This is the way your slave treated me,” he became furious.

    20Joseph’s master took him and threw him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison.

  • Gen 39:6-11
    6 verses
    82%

    6So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; he gave no thought to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.

    7Soon after these things, his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said,“Come to bed with me.”

    8But he refused, saying to his master’s wife,“Look, my master does not give any thought to his household with me here, and everything that he owns he has put into my care.

    9There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

    10Even though she continued to speak to Joseph day after day, he did not respond to her invitation to go to bed with her.

    11One day he went into the house to do his work when none of the household servants were there in the house.

  • Mark 14:52
    74%

    52but he ran off naked, leaving his linen cloth behind.

  • Gen 38:19
    73%

    19She left immediately, removed her veil, and put on her widow’s clothes.

  • Gen 37:23
    71%

    23When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.

  • Gen 38:15
    70%

    15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

  • 2 Sam 13:14
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    14But he refused to listen to her. He overpowered her and humiliated her by raping her.

  • Num 5:13
    69%

    13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–

  • 2 Sam 13:17
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    17He called his personal attendant and said to him,“Take this woman out of my sight and lock the door behind her!”

  • Gen 37:17
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    17The man said,“They left this area, for I heard them say,‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

  • Gen 39:1
    69%

    1Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, purchased him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

  • Deut 22:28
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    28Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.