Genesis 20:11

American King James Version (1999)

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.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

Proverbs 2:5

Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable to the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Genesis 26:7

And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look on.

Genesis 12:12

Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see you, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save you alive.

Job 28:28

And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Genesis 42:18

And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

Genesis 22:12

And he said, Lay not your hand on the lad, neither do you any thing to him: for now I know that you fear God, seeing 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 to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the fraudulent mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not on the LORD.

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Genesis 20:10

And Abimelech said to Abraham, What saw you, that you have done this thing?

Genesis 20:12

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