Verse 26

The LORD replied, 'If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the entire place for their sake.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Roam through the streets of Jerusalem, look and understand, search in her squares. If you find one person who acts justly and seeks truth, I will forgive the city.
  • Ezek 22:30 : 30 I searched for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.
  • Isa 65:8 : 8 This is what the LORD says: 'As new wine is found in a cluster and someone says, "Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it," in the same way, I will act for the sake of my servants and not destroy them all.'
  • Matt 24:22 : 22 If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.
  • Isa 6:13 : 13 Yet a tenth will remain in the land, and it will once again be ravaged. Like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains when it is felled, the holy seed is its stump.
  • Isa 10:22 : 22 Even though your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous.
  • Isa 19:24 : 24 In that day, Israel will join a threefold alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing upon the earth.