Genesis 20:5

New English Translation

Did Abraham not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”

Cross References

Genesis 12:13

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”

Genesis 20:13

When God made me wander from my father’s house, I told her, ‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me, “He is my brother.”’”

Genesis 20:16

To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your ‘brother.’ This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.”

1 Kings 9:4

You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.

2 Kings 20:3

“Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you examine thoughts and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you.

Job 33:9

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

Psalm 24:4

The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

Psalm 25:21

May integrity and godliness protect me, for I rely on you!

Psalm 26:6

I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O Lord,

Psalm 7:8

The Lord judges the nations. Vindicate me, Lord, because I am innocent, because I am blameless, O Exalted One!

Psalm 7:9

May the evil deeds of the wicked come to an end! But make the innocent secure, O righteous God, you who examine inner thoughts and motives!

Psalm 73:13

I concluded, “Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.

Psalm 78:72

David cared for them with pure motives; he led them with skill.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroys them.

Proverbs 20:7

The righteous person behaves in integrity; blessed are his children after him.

Daniel 6:22

My God sent his angel and closed the lions’ mouths so that they have not harmed me, because I was found to be innocent before him. Nor have I done any harm to you, O king.”

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God – not by human wisdom but by the grace of God – we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

1 Thessalonians 2:10

You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.

1 Timothy 1:13

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Joshua 22:22

“El, God, the Lord! El, God, the Lord! He knows the truth! Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the Lord, don’t spare us today!