Genesis 18:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume 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?

Genesis 18:23 Cross References

Numbers 16:22

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?

2 Samuel 24:17

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.

Genesis 20:4

Now Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation?

Hebrews 10:22

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:

Job 34:17

Shall even one that hateth right govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is just and mighty?

Genesis 18:25

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?

Jeremiah 30:21

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.

Psalm 73:28

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.

Job 8:3

Doth God pervert judgement? Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

James 5:17

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.

James 5:16

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.

Genesis 18:24

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Exodus 23:7

Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.