Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Genesis 39:10, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- 1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
- 2 Timothy 2:22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
- 1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
- Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
- Genesis 39:8
But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to…
- Proverbs 5:8
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
- Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- Proverbs 23:27
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- Proverbs 7:13
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
- Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
More to meet God in Genesis
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.