Genesis 18:15

World English Bible (2000)

Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

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  • Gen 4:9 : 9 Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
  • Gen 12:13 : 13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
  • Ps 44:21 : 21 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
  • Prov 12:19 : 19 Truth's lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
  • Mark 2:8 : 8 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
  • John 2:25 : 25 and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
  • John 18:17 : 17 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not."
  • John 18:25-27 : 25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not." 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?" 27 Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
  • Eph 4:23 : 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
  • Col 3:9 : 9 Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
  • 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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    9 They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

    10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

    11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

    12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

    13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

    14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

  • Gen 21:6-7
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    6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

    7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

  • Gen 17:15-19
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    15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

    16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

    17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

    18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

    19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

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    1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

    2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • Gen 12:18-19
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    18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

    19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

  • Gen 20:10-12
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    10 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

    11 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

    12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

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    2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  • 2 Kgs 4:16
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    16 He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid."

  • Gen 16:2
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    2 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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    21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

  • Gen 20:18
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    18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

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    17 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

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    30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

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    5 Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."

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    36 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

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    28 Then she said, "Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?"

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    9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

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    53 They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.