Genesis 38:26

New Living Translation

Judah recognized them immediately and said, “She is more righteous than I am, because I didn’t arrange for her to marry my son Shelah.” And Judah never slept with Tamar again.

Cross References

Genesis 37:33

Their father recognized it immediately. “Yes,” he said, “it is my son’s robe. A wild animal must have eaten him. Joseph has clearly been torn to pieces!”

Genesis 38:14

Tamar was aware that Shelah had grown up, but no arrangements had been made for her to come and marry him. So she changed out of her widow’s clothing and covered herself with a veil to disguise herself. Then she sat beside the road at the entrance to the village of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah.

Genesis 4:1

Now Adam had sexual relations with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant. When she gave birth to Cain, she said, “With the Lord’s help, I have produced a man!”

2 Samuel 16:22

So they set up a tent on the palace roof where everyone could see it, and Absalom went in and had sex with his father’s concubines.

2 Samuel 20:3

When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to look after the palace and placed them in seclusion. Their needs were provided for, but he no longer slept with them. So each of them lived like a widow until she died.

2 Samuel 24:17

When David saw the angel, he said to the Lord, “I am the one who has sinned and done wrong! But these people are as innocent as sheep—what have they done? Let your anger fall against me and my family.”

Job 4:5

But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you.

Job 40:5

I have said too much already. I have nothing more to say.”

Ezekiel 16:52

Shame on you! Your sins are so terrible that you make your sisters seem righteous, even virtuous.

Habakkuk 1:13

But you are pure and cannot stand the sight of evil. Will you wink at their treachery? Should you be silent while the wicked swallow up people more righteous than they?

Matthew 3:8

Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.

John 8:9

When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman.

Romans 13:12

The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here. So remove your dark deeds like dirty clothes, and put on the shining armor of right living.

Romans 3:19

Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses, and to show that the entire world is guilty before God.

1 Samuel 24:17

And he said to David, “You are a better man than I am, for you have repaid me good for evil.

1 Samuel 24:18

Yes, you have been amazingly kind to me today, for when the Lord put me in a place where you could have killed me, you didn’t do it.