Genesis 18:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then Abraham drewe neere, & said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

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  • Num 16:22 : 22 And they fell vpon their faces and saide, O God the God of the spirits, of all fleshe, hath not one man onely sinned, and wilt thou bee wroth with all the Congregation?
  • 2 Sam 24:17 : 17 And Dauid spake vnto the Lorde (when he sawe the Angel that smote the people) and saide, Behold, I haue sinned, yea, I haue done wickedly: but these sheepe, what haue they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against mee and against my fathers house.
  • Gen 20:4 : 4 (Notwithstanding Abimelech had not yet come neere her) And he said, Lord, wilt thou slay euen the righteous nation?
  • Ps 11:4-7 : 4 The Lord is in his holy palace: the Lordes throne is in the heauen: his eyes wil consider: his eye lids will try the children of men. 5 The Lorde will try the righteous: but the wicked and him that loueth iniquitie, doeth his soule hate. 6 Vpon the wicked he shal raine snares, fire, and brimstone, and stormie tempest: this is the porcion of their cup. 7 For the righteous Lorde loueth righteousnes: his countenance doeth beholde the iust.
  • Ps 73:28 : 28 As for me, it is good for me to draw neere to God: therefore I haue put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy workes.
  • Jer 30:21 : 21 And their noble ruler shall be of themselues, and their gouernour shall proceede from the middes of them, and I will cause him to draw neere, and approche vnto me: for who is this that directeth his heart to come vnto mee, saith the Lorde?
  • Rom 3:5-6 : 5 Now if our vnrighteousnes comend the righteousnes of God, what shal we say? Is God vnrighteous which punisheth? (I speake as a man.) 6 God forbid: els how shal God iudge ye world?
  • Heb 10:22 : 22 Let vs drawe neere with a true heart in assurance of faith, our hearts being pure from an euill conscience,
  • Jas 5:17 : 17 Helias was a man subiect to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rayne, and it rayned not on the earth for three yeeres and sixe moneths.
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?
  • Job 34:17 : 17 Shal he that hateth iudgement, gouerne? & wilt thou iudge him wicked that is most iust?
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Be it farre fro thee from doing this thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be euen as the wicked, be it farre from thee. shall not the Iudge of all the worlde doe right?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 18:24-33
    10 verses
    89%

    24If there be fiftie righteous within the citie, wilt thou destroy and not spare the place for the fiftie righteous that are therein?

    25Be it farre fro thee from doing this thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be euen as the wicked, be it farre from thee. shall not the Iudge of all the worlde doe right?

    26And the Lord answered, If I shall finde in Sodom fiftie righteous within the citie, then will I spare all the place for their sakes.

    27Then Abraham answered and said, Behold nowe, I haue begun to speake vnto my Lord, and I am but dust and ashes.

    28If there shall lacke fiue of fiftie righteous, wilt thou destroy all the citie for fiue? And he saide, If I finde there fiue and fourtie, I will not destroy it.

    29And he yet spake to him againe, and saide, What if there shalbe found fourtie there? Then he answered, I will not doe it for fourties sake.

    30Againe he said, Let not my Lord nowe be angry, that I speake, What if thirtie be founde there? Then he saide, I will not doe it, if I finde thirtie there.

    31Moreouer he said, Behold, now I haue begonne to speake vnto my Lord, What if twentie be founde there? And he answered, I will not destroy it for twenties sake.

    32Then he saide, Let not my Lord be nowe angrie, and I will speake but this once, What if tenne be found there? And he answered, I will not destroy it for tennes sake.

    33And the Lord went his way when he had left communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned vnto his place.

  • Gen 18:20-22
    3 verses
    85%

    20Then the Lorde saide, Because the crie of Sodom and Gomorah is great, and because their sinne is exceeding grieuous,

    21I will goe downe nowe, and see whether they haue done altogether according to that crie which is come vnto me: and if not, that I may knowe.

    22And the men turned thence and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lord.

  • Gen 18:16-18
    3 verses
    77%

    16Afterwarde the men did rise vp from thence and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

    17And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I doe,

    18Seeing that Abraham shalbe in deede a great and a mightie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in him?

  • Gen 19:27-29
    3 verses
    74%

    27And Abraham rising vp earely in ye morning went to the place, where he had stand before the Lord,

    28And looking towarde Sodom and Gomorah and toward all the land of the plaine, behold, he sawe the smoke of the lande mounting vp as the smoke of a fornace.

    29But yet when God destroyed the cities of the plaine, God thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middes of the destruction, when he ouerthrewe the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.

  • Gen 19:21
    73%

    21Then he said vnto him, Beholde, I haue receiued thy request also concerning this thing, that I will not ouerthrow this citie, for the which thou hast spoken.

  • Gen 20:4
    73%

    4(Notwithstanding Abimelech had not yet come neere her) And he said, Lord, wilt thou slay euen the righteous nation?

  • Gen 19:7
    73%

    7And said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.

  • Gen 19:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17And when they had brought them out, the Angel said, Escape for thy life: looke not behinde thee, neither tarie thou in all the plaine: escape into ye mountaine, least thou be destroyed.

    18And Lot saide vnto them, Not so, I pray thee, my Lord.

  • Gen 13:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12Abram dwelled in the lande of Canaan, and Lot abode in the cities of the plaine, and pitched his tent euen to Sodom.

    13Now the men of Sodom were wicked and exceeding sinners against the Lord.

  • Gen 18:3
    71%

    3And he said, Lord, if I haue now founde fauour in thy sight, goe not, I pray thee, from thy seruant.

  • Gen 20:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10So Abimelech said vnto Abraham, What sawest thou that thou hast done this thing?

    11Then Abraha answered, Because I thought thus, Surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they will slay me for my wiues sake.

  • Gen 17:18
    70%

    18And Abraham saide vnto God, Oh, that Ishmael might liue in thy sight.

  • Gen 19:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12Then the men said vnto Lot, Whom hast thou yet here? Either sonne in lawe, or thy sonnes, or thy daughters, or whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring it out of this place.

    13For we will destroy this place, because the crye of them is great before the Lorde, and the Lord hath sent vs to destroy it.

  • Gen 22:1
    70%

    1And after these things God did proue Abraham, and said vnto him, Abraham. Who answered, Here am I.

  • 2 Pet 2:7
    70%

    7And deliuered iust Loth vexed with the vncleanly conuersation of the wicked:

  • Gen 17:3
    70%

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

  • Gen 19:9
    69%

    9Then they said, Away hence, and they said, He is come alone as a stranger, and shall he iudge and rule? We will nowe deale worse with thee then with them. So they preassed sore vpon Lot himselfe, and came to breake the doore.

  • Gen 23:5
    69%

    5Then the Hittites answered Abraham, saying vnto him,

  • Gen 13:9
    69%

    9Is not the whole land before thee? depart I pray thee from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will goe to the right: or if thou goe to the right hand, then I will take the left.

  • Gen 14:21
    69%

    21Then the King of Sodom saide to Abram, Giue me the persons, and take the goodes to thy selfe.

  • Gen 21:24
    69%

    24Then Abraham said, I will sweare.

  • Gen 19:25
    69%

    25And ouerthrewe those cities and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants of the cities; and that that grewe vpon the earth.

  • Gen 19:1
    69%

    1And in the euening there came two Angels to Sodom: and Lot sate at the gate of Sodom, and Lot sawe them, and rose vp to meete them, and he bowed himselfe with his face to the ground.