Genesis 20:5
Did not he say to me : She is my sister: and she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done this.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Joshua 22:22The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord the most mighty God, he knoweth, and Israel also shall understand: If with the design of transgression we have set up this altar, let him not save us, but punish us immediately:
2 Kings 20:3I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.
Job 33:9I am clean, and without sin : I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.
Psalms 7:9The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice, and according to my innocence in me.
Psalms 25:21The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.
Psalms 73:13And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 20:4-8
3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. 4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord , wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. 6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy… Read the whole commentary →