Genesis 12:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

Cross References

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

Genesis 26:7

When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister”; for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me for the sake of Rebekah”; because she was fair to look upon.

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of man lays a snare, but he who trusts in the Lord is safe.

Matthew 10:28

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

1 Samuel 27:1

And David said in his heart, “I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”