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

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

They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before the LORD, your God, three times in the year.

Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, since the LORD has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

The king's heart is in the LORD's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.

Sinning

He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"

"If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against the LORD, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

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

For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.

To touch

but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"

Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

Now concerning the things about which you wrote: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.