Genesis 20:6

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Summary

And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

Withheld

Sinning

2 Thessalonians 2:7

To touch

Bible References

Withheld

For LORD had closed up fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

And they journeyed, and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders. Neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou go up to appear before LORD thy God three times in the year.

Now therefore, my lord, as LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, since LORD has withheld thee from blood guiltiness, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, b

For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

The king's heart is in the hand of LORD as the watercourses. He turns it wherever he will.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

Sinning

He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

If a soul sins, and commits a trespass against LORD, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbor,

Against thee, thee only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, that thou may be justified when thou speak, and {may prevail (LXX/NT)} when thou {are criticized (LXX/NT)}.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he who restrains it until now will develop from the midst.

To touch

but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, nor shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

And Abimelech ordered all the people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you