Genesis 18:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, `Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked?

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  • Num 16:22 : 22 and they fall on their faces, and say, `God, God of the spirits of all flesh -- the one man sinneth, and against all the company Thou art wroth!'
  • 2 Sam 24:17 : 17 And David speaketh unto Jehovah, when he seeth the messenger who is smiting among the people, and saith, `Lo, I have sinned, yea, I have done perversely; and these -- the flock -- what have they done? Let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father.'
  • Gen 20:4 : 4 And Abimelech hath not drawn near unto her, and he saith, `Lord, also a righteous nation dost thou slay?
  • Ps 11:4-7 : 4 `Jehovah `is' in his holy temple: Jehovah -- in the heavens `is' His throne. His eyes see -- His eyelids try the sons of men. 5 Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated, 6 He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind `is' the portion of their cup. 7 For righteous `is' Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'
  • Ps 73:28 : 28 And I -- nearness of God to me `is' good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!
  • Jer 30:21 : 21 And his honourable one hath been of himself, And his ruler from his midst goeth forth, And I have caused him to draw near, And he hath drawn nigh unto Me, For who `is' he who hath pledged his heart To draw nigh unto Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Rom 3:5-6 : 5 And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak) 6 let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?
  • Heb 10:22 : 22 may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;
  • Jas 5:17 : 17 Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray -- not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
  • Job 34:17 : 17 Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been -- as the righteous so the wicked -- far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 18:24-33
    10 verses
    89%

    24peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty -- the righteous who `are' in its midst?

    25Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been -- as the righteous so the wicked -- far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

    26And Jehovah saith, `If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.'

    27And Abraham answereth and saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I -- dust and ashes;

    28peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous -- dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?' and He saith, `I destroy `it' not, if I find there forty and five.'

    29And he addeth again to speak unto Him and saith, `Peradventure there are found there forty?' and He saith, `I do `it' not, because of the forty.'

    30And he saith, `Let it not be, I Pray thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: peradventure there are found there thirty?' and He saith, `I do `it' not, if I find there thirty.'

    31And he saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there are found there twenty?' and He saith, `I do not destroy `it', because of the twenty.'

    32And he saith, `Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, `I do not destroy `it', because of the ten.'

    33And Jehovah goeth on, when He hath finished speaking unto Abraham, and Abraham hath turned back to his place.

  • Gen 18:20-22
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    85%

    20And Jehovah saith, `The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah -- because great; and their sin -- because exceeding grievous:

    21I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely -- and if not -- I know;'

    22and the men turn from thence, and go towards Sodom; and Abraham is yet standing before Jehovah.

  • Gen 18:16-18
    3 verses
    77%

    16And the men rise from thence, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away;

    17and Jehovah said, `Am I concealing from Abraham that which I am doing,

    18and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?

  • Gen 19:27-29
    3 verses
    74%

    27And Abraham riseth early in the morning, unto the place where he hath stood `before' the face of Jehovah;

    28and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.

    29And it cometh to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.

  • Gen 19:21
    73%

    21And he saith unto him, `Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city `for' which thou hast spoken;

  • Gen 20:4
    73%

    4And Abimelech hath not drawn near unto her, and he saith, `Lord, also a righteous nation dost thou slay?

  • Gen 19:7
    73%

    7and saith, `Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil;

  • Gen 19:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, `Escape for thy life; look not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.'

    18And Lot saith unto them, `Not `so', I pray thee, my lord;

  • Gen 13:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom;

    13and the men of Sodom `are' evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

  • Gen 18:3
    71%

    3And he saith, `My Lord, if, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, do not, I pray thee, pass on from thy servant;

  • Gen 20:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Abimelech also saith unto Abraham, `What hast thou seen that thou hast done this thing?'

    11And Abraham saith, `Because I said, `Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;

  • Gen 17:18
    70%

    18And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

  • Gen 19:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12And the men say unto Lot, `Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law, thy sons also, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city, bring out from this place;

    13for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great `before' the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.'

  • Gen 22:1
    70%

    1And it cometh to pass after these things that God hath tried Abraham, and saith unto him, `Abraham;' and he saith, `Here `am' I.'

  • 2 Pet 2:7
    70%

    7and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue,

  • Gen 17:3
    70%

    3And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,

  • Gen 19:9
    69%

    9And they say, `Come nigh hither;' they say also, `This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than `to' them;' and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door.

  • Gen 23:5
    69%

    5And the sons of Heth answer Abraham, saying to him,

  • Gen 13:9
    69%

    9Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.'

  • Gen 14:21
    69%

    21And the king of Sodom saith unto Abram, `Give to me the persons, and the substance take to thyself,'

  • Gen 21:24
    69%

    24And Abraham saith, `I -- I do swear.'

  • Gen 19:25
    69%

    25and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.

  • Gen 19:1
    69%

    1And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself -- face to the earth,