Genesis 18:30

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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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  • Gen 44:18 : 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.
  • Judg 6:39 : 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.”
  • Esth 4:11-16 : 11 “All the servants of the king and the people of the king’s provinces know that there is only one law applicable to any man or woman who comes uninvited to the king in the inner court– that person will be put to death, unless the king extends to him the gold scepter, permitting him to be spared. Now I have not been invited to come to the king for some thirty days!” 12 When Esther’s reply was conveyed to Mordecai, 13 he said to take back this answer to Esther:“Don’t imagine that because you are part of the king’s household you will be the one Jew who will escape. 14 If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear from another source, while you and your father’s household perish. It may very well be that you have achieved royal status for such a time as this!” 15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!”
  • Job 40:4 : 4 “Indeed, I am completely unworthy– how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 For the one who takes revenge against murderers took notice of the oppressed; he did not overlook their cry for help
  • Ps 10:17 : 17 LORD, you have heard the request of the oppressed; you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer.
  • Ps 89:7 : 7 a God who is honored in the great angelic assembly, and more awesome than all who surround him?
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • Isa 55:8-9 : 8 “Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds,” says the LORD, 9 “for just as the sky is higher than the earth, so my deeds are superior to your deeds and my plans superior to your plans.
  • Heb 12:28-29 : 28 So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe. 29 For our God is indeed a devouring fire.

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  • Gen 18:31-33
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    92%

    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.”

    33The LORD went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.

  • Gen 18:20-29
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    92%

    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?”

    26So the LORD replied,“If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

    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.”

  • Gen 19:17-21
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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.

  • Gen 18:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2Abraham 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.

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

  • Gen 18:17
    71%

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

  • Jonah 3:9-10
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    70%

    9Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”

    10When 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.

  • Judg 6:17
    69%

    17Gideon 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.

  • Ezek 22:30
    68%

    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.

  • Gen 19:7
    68%

    7He said,“No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!

  • Amos 7:3
    68%

    3The LORD decided not to do this.“It will not happen,” the LORD said.

  • Prov 24:18
    67%

    18lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

  • Exod 32:14
    67%

    14Then the LORD relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

  • Gen 6:3
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    3So the LORD said,“My Spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”

  • Gen 33:13
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    13But 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.

  • Gen 24:12
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    12He prayed,“O LORD, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.

  • Jer 26:3
    67%

    3Maybe 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.

  • 1 Sam 20:7
    67%

    7If 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.

  • Gen 24:39
    66%

    39But I said to my master,‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’

  • Gen 19:28
    66%

    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.

  • Jer 18:10
    66%

    10But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.

  • Jonah 4:4
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    4The LORD said,“Are you really so very angry?”

  • Judg 6:39
    66%

    39Gideon 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.”

  • Gen 24:49
    66%

    49Now, 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.”

  • Gen 44:34
    66%

    34For 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.”

  • Gen 44:18
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    18Then 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.

  • Exod 32:10
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    10So 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.”

  • Job 37:20
    66%

    20Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he will be swallowed up!

  • Gen 30:31
    66%

    31So 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:

  • Jer 18:8
    66%

    8But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.

  • Jonah 4:2
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    2He 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.

  • Gen 32:20
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    20You 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.”