Genesis 39:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

he is not greater in this house than I am; nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife; how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.”

Genesis 20:6

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

Genesis 20:9

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”

Genesis 24:2

And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh,

Genesis 39:10

And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie with her or to be with her.

Genesis 41:40

you shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command; only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.”

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

2 Samuel 11:27

And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

2 Samuel 12:13

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens upon the people, and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 6:11

But I said, “Should such a man as I flee? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in.”

Job 31:23

For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

Psalm 51:4

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment.

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Jeremiah 28:16

Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you shall die, because you have uttered rebellion against the Lord.’ ”

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the Lord, their true habitation, the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

Leviticus 20:10

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

Leviticus 6:2

“If any one sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor

Numbers 32:23

But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out.

Luke 12:48

But he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, shall receive a light beating. Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required; and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the more.

1 Corinthians 4:2

Moreover it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.

Titus 2:10

nor to pilfer, but to show entire and true fidelity, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.

1 John 3:9

No one born of God commits sin; for God's nature abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood.