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

And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God permitted 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 cast out the nations before you, and enlarge your borders: neither shall any man desire your land, when you shall 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, seeing the LORD has held you back from coming to shed blood, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hastened and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any remaining males.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so that she shall not find her paths.

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

There is none 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 a soul sins, and commits a trespass against the LORD, and lies unto his neighbor in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or has deceived his neighbor;

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be blameless when you judge.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now restrains will do so, until he be taken out of the way.

And for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.

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

Now concerning the things of which you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Therefore come out from among them, and be you separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,