Genesis 18:27

A Conservative Version

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

Cross References

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.

Luke 5:8

But Simon Peter having seen, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, Lord.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

Luke 18:1

And he also spoke a parable to them about it being necessary to always pray, and not to give up,

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Job 30:19

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 4:19

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Genesis 2:7

And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Psalm 144:3

LORD, what is man, that thou take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou make account of him?

Psalm 8:4

what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?

Ezra 9:6

and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Genesis 18:28

Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous men. Will thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty-five.

Exodus 32:11

And Moses besought LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does thy wrath grow hot against thy people, whom thou have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?