Verse 26

And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
  • Ezek 22:30 : 30 And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.
  • Isa 65:8 : 8 This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.
  • Matt 24:22 : 22 And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.
  • Isa 6:13 : 13 And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).
  • Isa 10:22 : 22 For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.
  • Isa 19:24 : 24 In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the earth: