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1. "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?" (Isaiah 2:22). The best of men are but men at the best.

2. Eminent saints sometimes lamentably fail even in their most marked excellences of character. As here with Abram, so it was afterwards with Moses, with David, with Peter.

3. Honesty is the best policy.

4. Holy Scripture recognizes personal beauty as a good gift of God, although one not unattended with danger. None of the sacred writers countenance a gloomy monachism.

5. The simple candour of this narrative in not concealing the faults of its hero is an attestation of its truthfulness.

6. "Morality is not religion; but unless religion is grafted on morality, religion is worth nothing" (F.W. Robertson).

7. How gentle and forbearing the Lord is with the moral infirmities of His people! He "blots out their transgressions for His own sake, and will not remember their sins."

(Charles Jerdan, M. A. , LL. B.)

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KJV: And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

WEB: There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.