Genesis 18:21

Read in context

Genesis 18:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”

20 Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

21 I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”

22 And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

23 Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Genesis 18:21

Read the commentary on Genesis 18

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 11:5

Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Exodus 3:8

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 33:5

For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’”

Micah 1:3

For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

Job 34:22

There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.

Psalms 90:8

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Jeremiah 17:1

“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

Zephaniah 1:12

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

Hebrews 4:13

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

Deuteronomy 13:3

you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Joshua 22:22

“The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today.

Psalms 139:1

O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

Psalms 139:2

You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

Psalms 139:3

You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.

Psalms 139:4

Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

Psalms 139:5

You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.

Psalms 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Psalms 139:7

Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

Psalms 139:8

If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.

Psalms 139:9

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,

Psalms 139:10

even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.

Psalms 139:11

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—

Psalms 139:12

even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

Psalms 139:13

For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Psalms 139:14

I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

Psalms 139:15

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Psalms 139:16

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

Psalms 139:17

How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!

Psalms 139:18

If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

Psalms 139:19

O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men—

Psalms 139:20

who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

Psalms 139:21

Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?

Psalms 139:22

I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.

Psalms 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.

Psalms 139:24

See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.

Luke 16:15

So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.

2 Corinthians 11:11

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!