When he was about to cross the border into Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "You are a beautiful woman.

Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well."

When the men there asked about his wife, he said that she was his sister. He would not admit that she was his wife, because he was afraid that the men there would kill him to get Rebecca, who was very beautiful.

A prophet, Jehu son of Hanani, went to meet the king and said to him, "Do you think it is right to help those who are wicked and to take the side of those who hate the LORD? What you have done has brought the LORD's anger on you.

But Eliezer son of Dodavahu, from the town of Mareshah, warned Jehoshaphat, "Because you have made an alliance with Ahaziah, the LORD will destroy what you have built." And the ships were wrecked and never sailed.

and even when the Babylonian ambassadors came to inquire about the unusual event that had happened in the land, God let Hezekiah go his own way only in order to test his character.

No matter how often honest people fall, they always get up again; but disaster destroys the wicked.

There is no one on earth who does what is right all the time and never makes a mistake.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him in public, because he was clearly wrong.

Before some men who had been sent by James arrived there, Peter had been eating with the Gentile believers. But after these men arrived, he drew back and would not eat with the Gentiles, because he was afraid of those who were in favor of circumcising them.

No more lying, then! Each of you must tell the truth to the other believer, because we are all members together in the body of Christ.

Do not lie to one another, for you have put off the old self with its habits

Some of the court officials saw her and told the king how beautiful she was; so she was taken to his palace.

There was another famine in the land besides the earlier one during the time of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Leave our country. You have become more powerful than we are."