Genesis 18:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing;

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  • Amos 3:7 : 7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets.
  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.
  • John 15:15 : 15 From now on I call you not servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
  • Gen 19:24 : 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.
  • 2 Kgs 4:27 : 27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me.
  • 2 Chr 20:7 : 7 Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?
  • Jas 2:23 : 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. And he was called the Friend of God.

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  • Gen 18:18-33
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    18 Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

    19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

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

    21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to me; and if not, I will know.

    22 And the men turned their faces from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

    23 And Abraham drew near and said, Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

    24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will you also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are within it?

    25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

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

    27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

    28 Suppose there should lack five of the fifty righteous; will you destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.

    29 And he spoke to him yet again and said, Suppose there should be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the sake of forty.

    30 And he said to him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak; suppose thirty should 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 it upon myself to speak to the Lord; suppose twenty should be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty.

    32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but this once; suppose ten should be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.

    33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

  • Gen 18:15-16
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    15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he said, No; but you did laugh.

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

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    17 And he said, What is the thing that the LORD has said to you? Please, do not hide it from me: God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he said to you.

    18 And Samuel told him everything, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD; let him do what seems good to him.

  • 13 And the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?

  • Gen 17:2-3
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    2 And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.

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

  • 1 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get yourself out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:

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    1 And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

    2 And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood by him; and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the ground,

    3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, do not pass away, I pray you, from your servant.

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    10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did you see, that you have done this thing?

    11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me for my wife's sake.

  • 14 And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

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    27 And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he stood before the LORD.

    28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

  • 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

  • 1 And it happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

  • 16 And said, By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:

  • 20 Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from you.

  • 15 And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

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    17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?

    18 And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before you!

  • 1 After these things, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am your shield, and your exceedingly great reward.

  • Gen 19:17-18
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    17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them out, that he said, Escape for your life; do not look behind you, nor stay anywhere in the plain; escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.

    18 And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my Lord.

  • 21 And he said to him, See, I have accepted you in this matter also, that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.

  • 11 And the angel of the LORD called to him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here I am.

  • 17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.

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    2 And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land which I shall tell you of:

    3 Stay in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your descendants, I will give all these countries, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father;

  • 22 And he finished talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.