Genesis 18:32

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.”

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  • 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.”
  • Jas 5:15-17 : 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up– and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness. 17 Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!
  • 1 John 5:15-16 : 15 And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him. 16 If anyone sees his fellow Christian committing a sin not resulting in death, he should ask, and God will grant life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death. There is a sin resulting in death. I do not say that he should ask about that.
  • Gen 18:30 : 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.”
  • Exod 32:9-9 : 9 Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are! 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.”
  • Exod 32:14 : 14 Then the LORD relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.
  • Exod 33:13-14 : 13 Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your way, that I may know you, that I may continue to find favor in your sight. And see that this nation is your people.” 14 And the LORD said,“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 The LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:“The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, 7 keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
  • Exod 34:9-9 : 9 and said,“If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.” 10 He said,“See, I am going to make a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the LORD, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.
  • Num 14:11-20 : 11 The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them? 12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!” 13 Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them– 14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among this people, that you, LORD, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night. 15 If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say, 16 ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’ 17 So now, let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have said, 18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’ 19 Please forgive the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.” 20 Then the LORD said,“I have forgiven them as you asked.
  • Job 33:23 : 23 If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The LORD abhors the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
  • Isa 42:6-7 : 6 “I, the LORD, officially commission you; I take hold of your hand. I protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people, and a light to the nations, 7 to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.
  • 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.
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love?
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 Ask, Seek, Knock“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.
  • Eph 3:20 : 20 Now to him who by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think,

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  • Gen 18:15-31
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    15 Then Sarah lied, saying,“I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. But the LORD said,“No! You did laugh.”

    16 Abraham 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.)

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

    18 After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.

    19 I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. Then the LORD will give to Abraham what he promised him.”

    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.”

    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.”

    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.”

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    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.

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

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

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

  • Gen 19:7-8
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    8 Look, 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.”

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    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.

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    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.

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  • 11 Abraham replied,“Because I thought,‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

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

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

  • 13 because 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.”

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 18 Abraham said to God,“O that Ishmael might live before you!”

  • 2 He said,“Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.”“No,” they replied,“we’ll spend the night in the town square.”

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

  • 17 So now, forgive my sin this time only, and pray to the LORD your God that he would only take this death away from me.”

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

  • 3 Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,