Genesis 18:27
Genesis chapter 18 · verse 27 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
KJV
King James Version · 1611And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
Context
v.26And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.
v.27This passage
v.28peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Luke 18:1
And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;
- 2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
- Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
- Psalms 8:4
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
- Job 4:19
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
- Genesis 3:19
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.