Genesis 18:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 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:

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

    21 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.

    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?

  • Gen 18:27-32
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    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.

  • Gen 18:16-17
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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;

  • Gen 19:17-22
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    17 And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

    18 And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord;

    19 See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;

    20 This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.

    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.

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    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 13:12-13
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    12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

    13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

  • Gen 19:24-25
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    24 Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

    25 And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

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

  • Luke 17:29
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    29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

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    15 Truly I say to you, It will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's judging than for that town.

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    12 Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;

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    5 But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,

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    6 And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

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    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.

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    18 As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there.

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    4 But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;