COWARDICE

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• Genesis 3:12

  The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

• Genesis 12:11

  When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

• Genesis 12:12

  It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

• Genesis 12:13

  Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

• Genesis 12:14

  When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

• Genesis 12:15

  The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

• Genesis 12:16

  He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

• Genesis 12:17

  Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

• Genesis 12:18

  Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

• Genesis 12:19

  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

• Genesis 20:2

  Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

• Genesis 20:3

  But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.”

• Genesis 20:4

  Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

• Genesis 20:5

  Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

• Genesis 20:6

  God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

• Genesis 20:7

  Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

• Genesis 20:8

  Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

• Genesis 20:9

  Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

• Genesis 20:10

  Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”

• Genesis 20:11

  Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

• Genesis 20:12

  Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

• Genesis 26:7

  The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

• Genesis 26:8

  When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

• Genesis 26:9

  Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”

• Genesis 31:31

  Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

• Exodus 32:22

  Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

• Exodus 32:23

  For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’

• Exodus 32:24

  I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:’ so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

• Leviticus 26:36

  “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

• Leviticus 26:37

  They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

• Numbers 13:28

  However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.

• Numbers 13:31

  But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

• Numbers 13:32

  They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.

• Numbers 13:33

  There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

• Numbers 14:1

  All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

• Numbers 14:2

  All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

• Numbers 14:3

  Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”

• Numbers 14:4

  They said to one another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”

• Numbers 14:5

  Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 1:26

  Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 1:27

  You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

• Deuteronomy 1:28

  Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”

• Deuteronomy 20:8

  The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”

• Deuteronomy 32:30

  How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

• Joshua 2:11

  As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

• Joshua 5:1

  When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 7:5

  The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

• Joshua 10:16

  These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

• Joshua 17:14

  The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed us so far?”

• Joshua 17:15

  Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

• Joshua 17:16

  The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

• Joshua 17:17

  Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, that is, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;

• Joshua 17:18

  but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”

• Joshua 23:10

  One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.

• Judges 7:3

  Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

• 1 Samuel 13:6

  When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.

• 1 Samuel 13:7

  Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

• 1 Samuel 16:2

  Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 17:24

  All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were terrified.

• 2 Samuel 15:13

  A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”

• 2 Samuel 15:14

  David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

• 2 Samuel 15:15

  The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”

• 2 Samuel 15:16

  The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

• 2 Samuel 15:17

  The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.

• Job 15:24

  Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

• Job 18:11

  Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

• Psalms 78:9

  The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

• Proverbs 28:1

  The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

• Proverbs 29:25

  The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

• Isaiah 51:12

  “I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

• Isaiah 51:13

  Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

• Matthew 8:26

  He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

• Matthew 14:25

  In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

• Matthew 26:56

  But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

• Matthew 26:69

  Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”

• Matthew 26:70

  But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

• Matthew 26:71

  When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

• Matthew 26:72

  Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”

• Matthew 26:73

  After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”

• Matthew 26:74

  Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

• Matthew 28:4

  For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.

• Mark 4:38

  He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

• Mark 6:50

  for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

• Mark 14:66

  As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came,

• Mark 14:67

  and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, “You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!”

• Mark 14:68

  But he denied it, saying, “I neither know, nor understand what you are saying.” He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.

• Mark 14:69

  The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, “This is one of them.”

• Mark 14:70

  But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, “You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it.”

• Mark 14:71

  But he began to curse, and to swear, “I don’t know this man of whom you speak!”

• Mark 14:72

  The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.

• Luke 8:25

  He said to them, “Where is your faith?” Being afraid they marveled, saying to one another, “Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”

• Luke 22:54

  They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.

• Luke 22:55

  When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.

• Luke 22:56

  A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”

• Luke 22:57

  He denied Jesus, saying, “Woman, I don’t know him.”

• Luke 22:58

  After a little while someone else saw him, and said, “You also are one of them!” But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!”

• Luke 22:59

  After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, “Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!”

• Luke 22:60

  But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

• John 3:1

  Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

• John 3:2

  The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

• John 6:19

  When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.

• John 9:22

  His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

• John 12:42

  Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

• John 12:43

  for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

• John 18:16

  but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.

• John 18:17

  Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one of this man’s disciples?” He said, “I am not.”

• John 18:25

  Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it, and said, “I am not.”

• John 18:27

  Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.

• John 19:12

  At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”

• John 19:13

  When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”

• John 19:14

  Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

• John 19:15

  They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

• John 19:16

  So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

• John 19:38

  After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.

• Acts 16:27

  The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

• Galatians 2:11

  But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

• Galatians 2:12

  For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

• Galatians 2:13

  And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

• Galatians 2:14

  But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

• Galatians 6:12

  As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

• 2 Timothy 4:16

  At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.