Genesis 18:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare 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 Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

Isaiah 19:24

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

Isaiah 6:13

And though a tenth 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 and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth; that I may pardon her.

Ezekiel 22:30

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

Matthew 24:22

And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.