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

And your father has mocked me, and has changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

And they journeyed; and the 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 dispossess the nations before thee, and enlarge thy border, and no man shall desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the face of Jehovah thy God thrice in the year.

And now, my lord, as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah has restrained thee from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

For Jehovah Elohim is a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

The king's heart in the hand of Jehovah is as brooks of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

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

Sinning

There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he withheld anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife; and how should I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

If any one sin and act unfaithfully against Jehovah, and lie to his neighbour as to an entrusted thing or a deposit or that in which he hath robbed or wronged his neighbour,

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.

For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only there is he who restrains now until he be gone,

To touch

but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die.

And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall certainly be put to death.

But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not what is unclean, and I will receive you;