And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis 18:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Suppose there are in the city fifty righteous; will You destroy the place and not spare it for [the sake of] the fifty righteous in it? American Standard Version (1901) Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? Common English Bible What if there are fifty innocent people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not save the place for the sake of the fifty innocent people in it? Catholic Public Domain Version If there were fifty of the just in the city, will they perish with the rest? And will you not spare that place for the sake of fifty of the just, if they were in it? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? And wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein? |
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?
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?
And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man
Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
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.
saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar: and lo, God hath granted thee all them that sail with thee.