⁹ So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

¹³ And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.

¹⁸ And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

⁴ Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

⁶ And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.

⁴⁸ But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.

² And it is right for such servants to be safe persons.

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

¹⁰ Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

²⁰ Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,

²¹ Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.

¹⁰ Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.

⁴ Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

⁹ Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

⁸ But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.

⁷ They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

¹⁶ For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will send you away from off the face of the earth: this year death will overtake you, because you have said words against the Lord.

⁸ They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.

⁹ Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

² And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:

⁴⁰ You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.

² Give orders to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law for the burned offering: the offering is to be on the fire-wood on the altar all night till the morning; and the fire of the altar is to be kept burning.

¹⁰ And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

²³ But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

²⁷ And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

¹⁵ But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

¹¹ And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.

⁹ If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

¹⁰ Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

¹¹ For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

¹² It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

²³ For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

²⁹ So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.

³² He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.