² And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.

⁷ And when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearing to say, She is my wife; for, he said, the men of the place may put me to death on account of Rebekah; because she is very beautiful.

¹⁵ And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.

¹¹ Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

¹² And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

¹³ Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.

⁹ Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,

²⁵ And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

¹¹ But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.

¹² For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

²⁰ There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

¹⁶ For an upright man, after falling seven times, will get up again: but trouble is the downfall of the evil.

³¹ However, in the business of the representatives sent by the rulers of Babylon to get news of the wonder which had taken place in the land, God gave up guiding him, testing him to see what was in his heart.

³⁷ Then the word of Eliezer the prophet, the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, came against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have let yourself be joined with Ahaziah, the Lord has sent destruction on your works. And the ships were broken and were not able to go to Tarshish.

² And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.

¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we are.

¹ Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

¹² And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife: