Genesis 18:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ Then Abraham came near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ 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)

²³ And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?

Common English Bible

²³ Abraham approached and said, “Will you really sweep away the innocent with the guilty?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And as they drew near, he said: "Will you destroy the just with the impious?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?

Genesis 18:23 Cross References

Genesis 18:24

Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will you then sweep away the place and not forgive it for the fifty righteous who are in it?

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Genesis 20:4

Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent people?

2 Samuel 24:17

When David saw the angel who was destroying the people, he said to the Lord, “I alone have sinned, and I, the shepherd, have done evil, but these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”

Job 34:17

Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn one who is righteous and mighty,

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

Psalm 73:28

But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, to tell of all your works.

Exodus 23:7

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Jeremiah 30:21

Their prince shall be one of their own; their ruler shall come from their midst; I will bring him near, and he shall approach me, for who would otherwise dare to approach me? says the Lord.

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?”

Hebrews 10:22

let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.

James 5:17

Elijah was a human like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.