Genesis 18:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will forgive the whole place for their sake.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And the Lord said, If I find in the city of Sodom fifty righteous (upright and in right standing with God), I will spare the whole place for their sake.

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.

Common English Bible

The LORD said, “If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom, I will save it because of them.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And the Lord said to him, "If I find in Sodom fifty of the just in the midst of the city, I will release the entire place because of them."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And the Lord said to him: If I And in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

Genesis 18:26 Cross References

Genesis 18:17

The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,

Isaiah 10:22

For though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, an overwhelming verdict.

Isaiah 19:24

On that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,

Isaiah 6:13

Even if a tenth part remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains standing when it is felled.” (The holy seed is its stump.)

Isaiah 65:8

Thus says the Lord: As the wine is found in the cluster, and they say, “Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,” so I will do for my servants’ sake and not destroy them all.

Jeremiah 5:1

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look around and take note! Search its squares and see if you can find one person who acts justly and seeks truth— so that I may pardon Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 22:30

And I sought for anyone among them who would repair the wall and stand in the breach before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.

Matthew 24:22

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved, but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.