Genesis 18:27

American Standard Version (1901)

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:

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  • Gen 3:19 : 19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
  • Luke 18:1 : 1 And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • 1 Cor 15:47-48 : 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
  • 2 Cor 5:1-2 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. 2 For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
  • Luke 5:8 : 8 But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
  • Gen 18:30-32 : 30 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. 31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake. 32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.
  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
  • Job 30:19 : 19 He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
  • Job 42:6-8 : 6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes. 7 And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. 8 Now therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you; for him will I accept, that I deal not with you after your folly; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
  • Ps 8:4 : 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
  • Ps 144:3 : 3 Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

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    28peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.

    29And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.

    30And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

    31And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.

    32And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

    33And Jehovah went his way, as soon as he had left off communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

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    20And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

    21I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

    22And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before Jehovah.

    23And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?

    24Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

    25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

    26And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.

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    6Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.

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    16And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

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    3And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

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    2and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

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    22And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

    23that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

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    14And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

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    21And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.

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    34And he said, I am Abraham's servant.

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