Genesis 18:23

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 16:22 : 22 They fell on their faces, and said, "God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"
  • 2 Sam 24:17 : 17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house."
  • Gen 20:4 : 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
  • Ps 11:4-7 : 4 Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men. 5 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates. 6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face. For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.
  • Ps 73:28 : 28 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. A contemplation by Asaph.
  • Jer 30:21 : 21 Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh.
  • Rom 3:5-6 : 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do. 6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
  • Heb 10:22 : 22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
  • Jas 5:17 : 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
  • Job 34:17 : 17 Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--
  • Gen 18:25 : 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?"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 18:24-33
    10 verses
    89%

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

    25Be 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?"

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

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

    28What 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."

    29He 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."

    30He 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."

    31He 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."

    32He 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."

    33Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

  • Gen 18:20-22
    3 verses
    85%

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

    21I 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."

    22The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

  • Gen 18:16-18
    3 verses
    77%

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

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

    18since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

  • Gen 19:27-29
    3 verses
    74%

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

    28He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

    29It 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.

  • Gen 19:21
    73%

    21He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

  • Gen 20:4
    73%

    4Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

  • Gen 19:7
    73%

    7He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.

  • Gen 19:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"

    18Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.

  • Gen 13:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

    13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

  • Gen 18:3
    71%

    3and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

  • Gen 20:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

    11Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

  • Gen 17:18
    70%

    18Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

  • Gen 19:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

    13for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

  • Gen 22:1
    70%

    1It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."

  • 2 Pet 2:7
    70%

    7and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

  • Gen 17:3
    70%

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

  • Gen 19:9
    69%

    9They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

  • Gen 23:5
    69%

    5The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

  • Gen 13:9
    69%

    9Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

  • Gen 14:21
    69%

    21The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."

  • Gen 21:24
    69%

    24Abraham said, "I will swear."

  • Gen 19:25
    69%

    25He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

  • Gen 19:1
    69%

    1The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,