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Genesis 20:6

WEB

6God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

KJV

6And 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.

BSB

6Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

FBV

6God told him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this in all innocence, so I prevented you from sinning against me. That's why I didn't let you touch her.

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Extra References

1 Samuel 25:34

34For indeed, as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”


1 Samuel 25:26

26Now 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.


Proverbs 21:1

1The king’s heart is in the LORD’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.


Genesis 35:5

5They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.


Genesis 31:7

7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.


Exodus 34:24

24For 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.


2 Thessalonians 2:7

7For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.


Psalms 84:11

11For 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.


Psalms 81:12

12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.


Psalms 51:4

4Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.