Genesis 37:2

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’

that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.

She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.

Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.

These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

Adam, Seth, Enosh,

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.