Genesis 18:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
  • Luke 18:1 : 1 And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
  • 1 Cor 15:47-48 : 47 The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven. 48 Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.
  • 2 Cor 5:1-2 : 1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven. 2 For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.
  • Luke 5:8 : 8 But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.
  • Gen 18:30-32 : 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.
  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
  • Job 30:19 : 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
  • Job 42:6-8 : 6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust. 7 And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has. 8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
  • Ps 8:4 : 4 What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?
  • Ps 144:3 : 3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

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    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.

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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,

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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?

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    24 And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.

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    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

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