Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Genesis 18:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Abraham came close and said, Will You destroy the righteous (those upright and in right standing with God) together with the wicked? American Standard Version (1901) And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked? Common English Bible Abraham approached and said, “Will you really sweep away the innocent with the guilty? Catholic Public Domain Version And as they drew near, he said: "Will you destroy the just with the impious? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked? |
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
That 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?
Now Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation?
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done perversely: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
Shall even one that hateth right govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is just and mighty?
But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I have made the Lord GODmy refuge, That I may tell of all thy works.
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
And their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is he that hath had boldness to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure water:
Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.