Verse 27

Then Abraham asked,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord(although I am but dust and ashes),

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • 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.”
  • Luke 18:1 : 1 Prayer and the Parable of the Persistent Widow Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
  • 1 Cor 15:47-48 : 47 The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.
  • 2 Cor 5:1-2 : 1 Living by Faith, Not by Sight For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling,
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
  • Luke 5:8 : 8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying,“Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”
  • Gen 18:30-32 : 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.” 32 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.”
  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 I prayed,“O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
  • Job 30:19 : 19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
  • Job 42:6-8 : 6 Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes! 7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
  • Ps 8:4 : 4 Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?
  • Ps 144:3 : 3 O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.