Genesis 18:30
Then 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.”
Then 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.”
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31 Abraham 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.”
32 Finally 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.”
33 The LORD went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.
20 So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant
21 that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”
22 The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the LORD.
23 Abraham approached and said,“Will you really sweep away the godly along with the wicked?
24 What 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?
25 Far 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?”
26 So the LORD replied,“If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27 Then Abraham asked,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord(although I am but dust and ashes),
28 what 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.”
29 Abraham spoke to him again,“What if forty are found there?” He replied,“I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”
17 When 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!”
18 But Lot said to them,“No, please, Lord!
19 Your 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.
20 Look, 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.
2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
3 He said,“My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.
17 Then the LORD said,“Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
9 Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”
10 When God saw their actions– that they turned from their evil way of living!– God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.
17 Gideon said to him,“If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.
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.
7 He said,“No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!
3 The LORD decided not to do this.“It will not happen,” the LORD said.
18 lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.
14 Then the LORD relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.
3 So the LORD said,“My Spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”
13 But Jacob said to him,“My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.
12 He prayed,“O LORD, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.
3 Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do. If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing.
7 If he should then say,‘That’s fine,’ then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me.
39 But I said to my master,‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’
28 He 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.
10 But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.
4 The LORD said,“Are you really so very angry?”
39 Gideon said to God,“Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.”
49 Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.”
34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”
18 Then Judah approached him and said,“My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.
10 So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”
20 Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he will be swallowed up!
31 So Laban asked,“What should I give you?”“You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied,“but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:
8 But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.
2 He prayed to the LORD and said,“Oh, LORD, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish!– because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.
20 You must also say,‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought,“I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”