Genesis 20:2

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During his time there, when Abraham told people about his wife Sarah, he said, “She's my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her to become one of his wives.

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Genesis 12:15

Pharaoh's officials also noticed and spoke positively about her to Pharaoh. So Sarai was taken to his palace to become one of his wives.

Genesis 20:12

“Anyway, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father but not my mother, and I married her.

Genesis 21:22

Around this time Abimelech came with Phicol, the commander of his army, to see Abraham. “God blesses you in everything you do,” Abimelech said.

Genesis 26:1

There was a famine in the country—not the one that happened before in Abraham's time, but a later one. So Isaac moved to Gerar in the territory of Abimelech, king of the Philistines.

Genesis 26:16

Then Abimelech told Isaac, “You have to leave our country, because you've become much too powerful for us.”

Genesis 26:7

When the men there asked him about his wife, he told them, “She's my sister,” because he was afraid. He said to himself, “If I say she's my wife, the men here will kill me to get Rebekah, because she's so beautiful.”

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu, son of Hanani, the seer went out to face him. He said to King Jehoshaphat, “Why are you helping the wicked? Why do you love those who hate the Lord? The Lord is angry with you because of this.

2 Chronicles 20:37

But Eliezer, son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have made an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord will destroy what you're doing.” The ships were wrecked and couldn't sail to Tarshish.

2 Chronicles 32:31

But when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon came to him to ask about the miraculous sign that had happened in the country, God left him to test him, so he could know Hezekiah's true thinking.

Proverbs 24:16

Those who do right may fall down seven times, and still get up again; but the wicked are brought down by disaster.

Proverbs 29:25

Being afraid of people traps you, but if you trust in the Lord you're safe.

Proverbs 6:29

It's the same for anyone who sleeps with another man's wife. No one who touches her will remain unpunished.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There's not one good person in all the world who always does what is right and never sins.

Ephesians 4:25

So reject lies, and tell the truth to each other—for we belong to each other.

Colossians 3:9

Don't lie to each other, since you've discarded your old self and what you used to do,