Genesis 18:27

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Genesis 18:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible

25 Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

26 So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”

27 Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

28 suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”

29 Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”

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Genesis 18:30

Then Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak further. Suppose thirty are found there?” He replied, “If I find thirty there, I will not do it.”

Genesis 18:31

And Abraham said, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it.”

Genesis 18:32

Finally, Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are found there?” And He answered, “On account of the ten, I will not destroy it.”

Ezra 9:6

and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

Job 42:6

Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 42:7

After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

Job 42:8

So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

Luke 18:1

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:

Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Psalms 8:4

what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

Psalms 144:3

O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

Luke 5:8

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:48

As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:1

Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

2 Corinthians 5:2

For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,