Genesis 18:21

World English Bible (2000)

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

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  • Gen 11:5 : 5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
  • Exod 33:5 : 5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
  • Josh 22:22 : 22 "The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day),
  • Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
  • Ps 90:8 : 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
  • Ps 139:1-9 : 1 Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether. 5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me. 6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it. 7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10 Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;" 12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you. 13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. 15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you. 19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men! 20 For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain. 21 Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies. 23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. 24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
  • Jer 17:1 : 1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
  • Mic 1:3 : 3 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
  • Zeph 1:12 : 12 It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil."
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.
  • 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
  • Deut 13:3 : 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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    16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

    17 Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

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    19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

    20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

  • Gen 18:22-33
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    22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

    23 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

    24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

    25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

    26 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

    27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

    28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

    29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

    30 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

    31 He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

    32 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

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    27 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

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    29 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

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    2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

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    24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

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

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