Genesis 20:7

New Century Version

Give Abraham his wife back. He is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will not die. But if you do not give Sarah back, you and all your family will surely die.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:15

The Egyptian officers saw her and told the king of Egypt how beautiful she was. They took her to the king’s palace, and

Genesis 12:17

But the Lord sent terrible diseases on the king and all the people in his house because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

Genesis 2:17

but you must not eat the fruit from the tree which gives the knowledge of good and evil. If you ever eat fruit from that tree, you will die!”

Genesis 20:18

The Lord had kept all the women in Abimelech’s house from having children as a punishment on Abimelech for taking Abraham’s wife Sarah.

Genesis 20:3

But one night God spoke to Abimelech in a dream and said, “You will die. The woman you took is married.”

Genesis 20:8

So early the next morning, Abimelech called all his officers and told them everything that had happened in the dream. They were very afraid.

Genesis 23:6

“Sir, you are a great leader among us. You may have the best place we have to bury your dead. You may have any of our burying places that you want, and none of us will stop you from burying your dead wife.”

2 Samuel 24:17

When David saw the angel that killed the people, he said to the Lord, “I am the one who sinned and did wrong. These people only followed me like sheep. They did nothing wrong. Please punish me and my family.”

1 Kings 13:6

Then the king said to the man of God, “Please pray to the Lord your God for me, and ask him to heal my arm.” So the man of God prayed to the Lord, and the king’s arm was healed, becoming as it was before.

2 Kings 5:11

Naaman became angry and left. He said, “I thought Elisha would surely come out and stand before me and call on the name of the Lord his God. I thought he would wave his hand over the place and heal the disease.

1 Chronicles 16:22

He said, “Don’t touch my chosen people, and don’t harm my prophets.”

2 Chronicles 30:18

Although many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not purified themselves for the feast, they ate the Passover even though it was against the law. So Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “Lord, you are good. You are the Lord, the God of our ancestors. Please forgive all those who try to obey you even if they did not make themselves clean as the rules of the Temple command.”

Job 34:19

He is not nicer to princes than other people, nor kinder to rich people than poor people, because he made them all with his own hands.

Job 42:8

Now take seven bulls and seven male sheep, and go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will listen to his prayer. Then I will not punish you for being foolish. You have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job did.”

Psalm 25:14

The Lord tells his secrets to those who respect him; he tells them about his agreement.

Exodus 18:17

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “You are not doing this right.

Exodus 4:16

Aaron will speak to the people for you. You will tell him what God says, and he will speak for you.

Exodus 7:1

The Lord said to Moses, “I have made you like God to the king of Egypt, and your brother Aaron will be like a prophet for you.

Jeremiah 14:11

Then the Lord said, “Don’t pray for good things to happen to the people of Judah.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: “I would not feel sorry for the people of Judah even if Moses and Samuel prayed for them. Send them away from me! Tell them to go!

Jeremiah 27:18

If they are prophets and have the message from the Lord, let them pray to the Lord All-Powerful. Let them ask that the items which are still in the Temple of the Lord and in the king’s palace and in Jerusalem not be taken away to Babylon.

Ezekiel 3:18

When I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ you must warn them so they may live. If you don’t speak out to warn the wicked to stop their evil ways, they will die in their sin. But I will hold you responsible for their death.

Ezekiel 33:8

Suppose I say to the wicked: ‘Wicked people, you will surely die,’ but you don’t speak to warn the wicked to stop doing evil. Then they will die because they were sinners, but I will punish you for their deaths.

Leviticus 6:4

If he does any of these things, he is guilty of sin. He must bring back whatever he stole or whatever he took by cheating. He must bring back the thing he took care of for someone else. He must bring back what he found and lied about

Leviticus 6:7

Then the priest will perform the acts to remove that person’s sin so he will belong to the Lord, and the Lord will forgive him for the sins that made him guilty.”

Acts 8:24

Simon answered, “Both of you pray for me to the Lord so the things you have said will not happen to me.”

1 Corinthians 14:4

The ones who speak in different languages are helping only themselves, but those who prophesy are helping the whole church.

Hebrews 1:1

In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets many times and in many different ways.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by everyone, and husband and wife should keep their marriage pure. God will judge as guilty those who take part in sexual sins.

1 John 5:16

If anyone sees a brother or sister sinning (sin that does not lead to eternal death), that person should pray, and God will give the sinner life. I am talking about people whose sin does not lead to eternal death. There is sin that leads to death. I do not mean that a person should pray about that sin.

1 Samuel 12:19

They said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for us, your servants! Don’t let us die! We’ve added to all our sins the evil of asking for a king.”

1 Samuel 12:23

I will surely not stop praying for you, because that would be sinning against the Lord. I will teach you what is good and right.

1 Samuel 7:5

Samuel said, “All Israel must meet at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.”

1 Samuel 7:8

They said to Samuel, “Don’t stop praying to the Lord our God for us! Ask him to save us from the Philistines!”