Genesis 18:26

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So the LORD replied,“If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

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  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Judah is Justly Deserving of Coming Judgment The LORD said,“Go up and down through the streets of Jerusalem. Look around and see for yourselves. Search through its public squares. See if any of you can find a single person who deals honestly and tries to be truthful. If you can, then I will not punish this city.
  • Ezek 22:30 : 30 “I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.
  • Isa 65:8 : 8 This is what the LORD says:“When juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes, someone says,‘Don’t destroy it, for it contains juice.’ So I will do for the sake of my servants– I will not destroy everyone.
  • Matt 24:22 : 22 And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
  • Isa 6:13 : 13 Even if only a tenth of the people remain in the land, it will again be destroyed, like one of the large sacred trees or an Asherah pole, when a sacred pillar on a high place is thrown down. That sacred pillar symbolizes the special chosen family.”
  • Isa 10:22 : 22 For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back. Destruction has been decreed; just punishment is about to engulf you.
  • Isa 19:24 : 24 At that time Israel will be the third member of the group, along with Egypt and Assyria, and will be a recipient of blessing in the earth.

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  • Gen 18:20-25
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    20So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant

    21that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”

    22The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the LORD.

    23Abraham approached and said,“Will you really sweep away the godly along with the wicked?

    24What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

    25Far be it from you to do such a thing– to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?”

  • Gen 18:27-32
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    27Then Abraham asked,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord(although I am but dust and ashes),

    28what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?” He replied,“I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

    29Abraham spoke to him again,“What if forty are found there?” He replied,“I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”

    30Then Abraham said,“May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?” He replied,“I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

    31Abraham said,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?” He replied,“I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”

    32Finally Abraham said,“May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied,“I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

  • Gen 18:16-17
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    16Abraham Pleads for Sodom When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom.(Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)

    17Then the LORD said,“Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

  • Gen 19:17-22
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    17When they had brought them outside, they said,“Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

    18But Lot said to them,“No, please, Lord!

    19Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.

    20Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”

    21“Very well,” he replied,“I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.

    22Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”(This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)

  • Gen 19:28-29
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    28He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

    29So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham’s request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.

  • Gen 13:12-13
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    12Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

    13(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the LORD.)

  • Gen 19:24-25
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    24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the LORD.

    25So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

  • Gen 18:3
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    3He said,“My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

  • Luke 17:29
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    29but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

  • Matt 11:24
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    24But I tell you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you!”

  • Jer 50:40
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    40I will destroy Babylonia just like I did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the LORD.

  • Matt 10:15
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    15I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!

  • Gen 19:7-8
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    7He said,“No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!

    8Look, I have two daughters who have never been intimate with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

  • Gen 19:12-13
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    12Then the two visitors said to Lot,“Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this place

    13because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the LORD that he has sent us to destroy it.”

  • Ezek 18:5
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    5“Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,

  • 2 Pet 2:6
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    6and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,

  • Gen 13:10
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    10Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered(before the LORD obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

  • Ezek 22:30
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    30“I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.

  • Jer 49:18
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    18Edom will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns that were around them. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the LORD.

  • Gen 19:4
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    4Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men– both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom– surrounded the house.