Please say that you are my sister, so that I’ll be treated well for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.”
Genesis 20:5 - Tree of Life Version Didn’t he say to me, ‘She’s my sister’? And she herself even said, ‘He’s my brother.’ I did this with integrity of my heart and guiltlessness of my 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 that you are my sister, so that I’ll be treated well for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.”
So when God made me wander away from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your loyalty that you must show me: in every place we go, say of me, ‘He is my brother.’”
At the same time he said to Sarah, “Look, I’ve given a thousand shekels to your brother. Look, it is compensation for everything that happened—so to everyone with you, you are vindicated.”
“As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked—in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing all I commanded you, keeping My statutes and My ordinances—
“Please, Adonai, remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
I know, my God, that You search the heart and take pleasure in uprightness. With integrity of heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy Your people who are present here willingly contribute to You.
One with clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully.
I will wash my hands in innocence, so I can walk around Your altar, Adonai,
Let an assembly of peoples gather around You and return on high, above them.
Adonai judges the peoples. Vindicate me, Adonai, according to my righteousness and integrity in me.
Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.
So He shepherded them with the integrity of His heart, and led them with His skillful hands.
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous will destroy them.
A righteous person walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world, and most especially toward you, with simplicity and godly sincerity—not by human wisdom but by the grace of God.
You are witnesses, along with God, of how devoutly and righteously and blamelessly we behaved toward you who believe.
even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man. Yet I was shown mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,
“God of gods is Adonai! God of gods is Adonai! He knows, and may Israel itself know! If we acted in rebellion or in treachery against Adonai, don’t spare us this day!