Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.’
Genesis 20:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Didn’t he himself say to me, “She is my sister”? And she herself said, “He is my brother.” I did this with a clear conscience and clean hands.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Did not the man tell me, She is my sister? And she herself said, He is my brother. In integrity of heart and innocency of hands I have done this. American Standard Version (1901) Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this. Common English Bible Didn’t he say to me, ‘She’s my sister,’ and didn’t she—even she—say, ‘He’s my brother’? My intentions were pure, and I acted innocently when I did this.” Catholic Public Domain Version Did he not say to me, 'She is my sister,' and did she not say, 'He is my brother?' In the sincerity of my heart and the purity of my hands, I have done this." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Did not he say to me: She is my sister; and she say: He is my brother? In the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands, have I done this. |
Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.’
So when God made me wander from my father’s house, I said to her: Show your loyalty to me wherever we go and say about me, “He’s my brother.” ’
And he said to Sarah, ‘Look, I am giving your brother one thousand pieces of silver. It is a verification of your honour to all who are with you. You are fully vindicated.’
As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep my statutes and ordinances,
‘Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what pleases you.’ , And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
I know, my God, that you test the heart and that you are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to you.
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them.
A righteous person acts with integrity; his children who come after him will be happy.
My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths; and they haven’t harmed me, for I was found innocent before him. And also before you, Your Majesty, I have not done harm.’
Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God’s grace.
You are witnesses, and so is God, of how devoutly, righteously, and blamelessly we conducted ourselves with you believers.
even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief,
‘The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! , He knows, and may Israel also know. Do not spare us today, if it was in rebellion or treachery against the Lord