Genesis 39:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not consent to lie beside her or to be with her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ She spoke to Joseph day after day, but he did not listen to her, to lie with her or to be with her.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Every single day she tried to convince him, but he wouldn’t agree to sleep with her or even to be with her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ With such words as these, throughout each day, the woman was pestering the young man, and he was refusing the adultery.

Genesis 39:10 Cross References

Genesis 39:8

But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, with me here, my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my hand.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

2 Timothy 2:22

Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

abstain from every form of evil.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 Corinthians 6:18

Shun sexual immorality! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against the body itself.

Proverbs 23:27

For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

Proverbs 7:5

that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 2:16

You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

Proverbs 1:15

my child, do not walk in their way; keep your foot from their paths,

Proverbs 9:16

“You who are simple, turn in here!” And to those without sense she says,

Proverbs 9:14

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the high places of the town,

Proverbs 7:13

She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.

Genesis 39:9

He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”

Genesis 39:11

One day, however, when he went into the house to do his work, and while no one else was in the house,

Proverbs 23:28

She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.