Genesis 39:9 - The Scriptures 2009

⁹ No one is greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld whatever from me but you, because you are his wife. And how shall I do this great evil and sin against Elohim?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ He is not greater in this house than I am; nor has he kept anything from me except you, for you are his wife. How then can I do this great evil and sin against God?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Common English Bible

⁹ No one is greater than I am in this household, and he hasn’t denied me anything except you, since you are his wife. How could I do this terrible thing and sin against God?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Neither is there anything which is not in my power, or that he has not delivered to me, except you, for you are his wife. How then can I do this evil act and sin against my God?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife: How then can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God?

Genesis 39:9 Cross References

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Seḏom were evil and sinned before יהוה, exceedingly so.

Genesis 20:3

But Elohim came to Aḇimeleḵ in a dream by night, and said to him, “See, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”

Genesis 20:6

And Elohim said to him in a dream, “Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart, and so I kept you from sinning against Me. For this reason I did not let you touch her.

Genesis 20:9

And Aḇimeleḵ called Aḇraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? In what have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my reign a great sin? You have done matters to me that should not be done.”

Genesis 24:2

And Aḇraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please, put your hand under my thigh,

Genesis 39:10

And it came to be, as she spoke to Yosĕph day by day, that he did not listen to her, to lie with her, to be with her.

Genesis 41:40

Be over my house, you yourself, and at your mouth all my people shall kiss – only in the throne I am greater than you.

Genesis 42:18

Now Yosĕph said to them the third day, “Do this and live, for I fear Elohim:

2 Samuel 11:27

And when her mourning was over, Dawiḏ sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the deed that Dawiḏ had done was evil in the eyes of יהוה.

2 Samuel 12:13

And Dawiḏ said to Nathan, “I have sinned against יהוה.” And Nathan said to Dawiḏ, “Also, יהוה has put away your sin, you shall not die.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty sheqels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of Elohim.

Nehemiah 6:11

And I said, “Should a man like me flee? And who is there like me who would go into the Hĕḵal to save his life? I do not go in!”

Job 31:23

For I am in dread of destruction from Ěl, and from His excellence I could not escape.

Psalm 51:4

Against You, You alone, have I sinned, And done evil in Your eyes; That You might be proven right in Your words; Be clear when You judge.

Exodus 20:14

“You do not commit adultery.

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who goes in to his neighbour’s wife; None who touches her goes unpunished.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; He who does it destroys his own life.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I found more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are shackles. He who pleases Elohim escapes from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Jeremiah 28:16

“Therefore thus said יהוה, ‘See, I am sending you away from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, for you have spoken apostasy against יהוה.’ ”

Jeremiah 50:7

“All who found them have devoured them. And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against יהוה, the Home of righteousness, and the Expectation of their fathers: יהוה.’

Leviticus 20:10

‘And a man who commits adultery with the wife of another man, who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour: the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death.

Leviticus 6:2

When any being sins, and committed a trespass against יהוה, and has lied to his neighbour about a deposit, or about a pledge, or about a robbery, or shall extort from his neighbour,”

Numbers 32:23

“But if you do not do so, then see, you shall sin against יהוה, and know: your sin is going to find you out.

Luke 12:48

“But he who did not know, yet did what deserved flogging, shall be beaten with few. And everyone to whom much is given, from him much shall be demanded. And to whom much has been entrusted, from him much more shall be asked.

1 Corinthians 4:2

For the rest, it is sought in trustees, that those should be found trustworthy.

Titus 2:10

not stealing, but showing all good trustworthiness, so that they adorn the teaching of Elohim our Saviour in every way.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be respected by all, and the bed be undefiled. But Elohim shall judge those who whore, and adulterers.

1 John 3:9

Everyone having been born of Elohim does not sin, because His seed stays in him, and he is powerless to sin, because he has been born of Elohim.

Revelation 21:8

“But as for the cowardly, and untrustworthy, and abominable, and murderers, and those who whore, and drug sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

“But outside are the dogs and those who enchant with drugs, and those who whore, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and all who love and do falsehood.