Genesis 39:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Although she spoke to him day after day, he would not agree to lie with her, or even be near her.

Cross References

Genesis 39:8

But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, as long as I am here, my master does not give a thought to anything in the house, but has entrusted to me all he owns.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.

2 Timothy 2:22

So turn from youthful desires and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord with purity of heart.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

Refrain from every kind of evil. Concluding Prayer.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be led astray: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

1 Corinthians 6:18

Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body.

Proverbs 23:27

For the harlot is a deep pit, and the foreign woman a narrow well;

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of the foreign woman is a deep pit; whoever incurs the Lord’s anger will fall into it.

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep you from a stranger, from the foreign woman with her smooth words.

Proverbs 5:8

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

Proverbs 5:3

Indeed, the lips of the stranger drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

Proverbs 2:16

Saving you from a stranger, from a foreign woman with her smooth words,

Proverbs 1:15

My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path!

Proverbs 9:16

“Let those who are naive turn in here, to those who lack sense I say,

Proverbs 9:14

She sits at the door of her house upon a seat on the city heights,

Proverbs 7:13

Then she grabs him, kisses him, and with an impudent look says to him:

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would like younger widows to marry, have children, and manage a home, so as to give the adversary no pretext for maligning us.

Genesis 39:9

He has no more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld from me nothing but you, since you are his wife. How, then, could I do this great wrong and sin against God?”

Genesis 39:11

One such day, when Joseph came into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants were then in the house,

Proverbs 23:28

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the number of the faithless.