Quotes about Morality
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
— Genesis 38:16
About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
— Genesis 38:24
Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
— Genesis 38:26
and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
— Genesis 39:7
No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
— Genesis 39:9
Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.
— Genesis 39:10
She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
— Genesis 39:12
So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.
— Genesis 39:16
Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,
— Genesis 39:17
You shall not murder.
— Exodus 20:13
You shall not commit adultery.
— Exodus 20:14
You shall not steal.
— Exodus 20:15