Devine Scripture

Genesis 18:26

Genesis chapter 18 · verse 26 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

v.26This passage

v.27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 5:1

    Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.

  • Isaiah 10:22

    For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

  • Isaiah 19:24

    In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;

  • Isaiah 65:8

    Thus saith Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

  • Ezekiel 22:30

    And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

  • Isaiah 6:13

    And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.