Genesis 18:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

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  • Gen 11:5 : 5 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
  • Exod 33:5 : 5 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you.
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
  • Josh 22:22 : 22 God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see--if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord,
  • Job 34:22 : 22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.
  • Ps 90:8 : 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.
  • Ps 139:1-9 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets. 2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away. 3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord. 5 I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me. 6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it. 7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you? 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea; 10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me. 11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night; 12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you. 13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body. 14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious. 15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being. 17 How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them! 18 If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you. 19 If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood. 20 For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name. 21 Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me? 22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me. 23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested: 24 See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
  • Jer 17:1 : 1 The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
  • Mic 1:3 : 3 For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.
  • Zeph 1:12 : 12 And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.
  • 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.
  • Deut 13:3 : 3 Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.

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    16 And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

    17 And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do;

    18 Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

    19 For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

    20 And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

  • Gen 18:22-33
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    22 And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.

    23 And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

    24 If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men?

    25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

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

    27 And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

    28 If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.

    29 And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.

    30 And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.

    31 And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

    32 And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

    33 And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.

  • Gen 19:27-29
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    27 And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

    28 And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.

    29 So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

  • Gen 19:21-22
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    21 And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.

    22 Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

  • Gen 19:13
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    13 For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.

  • Gen 11:5
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    5 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

  • Gen 18:2-3
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    2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

    3 And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:

  • Gen 19:24
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    24 Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

  • Jer 18:10
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    10 If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.

  • Gen 44:34
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    34 For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

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    1 And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.

  • Gen 19:18
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    18 And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord;

  • Jer 26:3
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    49 And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.

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    9 Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

  • Gen 17:3
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    3 And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

  • Gen 19:5
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    5 And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.

  • Gen 22:1
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    1 Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

  • Gen 24:42
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    42 And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey,

  • Gen 22:11
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    11 But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

  • Jer 18:8
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    8 If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.