Genesis 20:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely there is no reverence or fear of God at all in this place, and they will slay me because of my wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Abraham said, “I thought to myself, No one reveres God here and they will kill me to get my wife.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Abraham responded: "I thought to myself, saying: Perhaps there is no fear of God in this place. And they will put me to death because of my wife.

Genesis 20:11 Cross References

Proverbs 16:6

By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one avoids evil.

Proverbs 2:5

then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Genesis 26:7

When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “or else the men of the place might kill me for the sake of Rebekah, because she is attractive in appearance.”

Genesis 12:12

and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

Job 28:28

And he said to humankind, ‘Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

Genesis 22:12

He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Romans 3:18

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Psalm 14:4

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?

Job 1:1

There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

Genesis 20:10

And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What were you thinking, that you did this thing?”

Genesis 20:12

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