Genesis 18:27

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Abraham responded by saying: "Since now I have begun, I will speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.

Cross References

Genesis 18:28

What if there were five less than fifty of the just? Would you, despite the forty-five, eliminate the entire city?" And he said, "I will not eliminate it, if I find forty-five there."

Genesis 2:7

And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return."

Ezra 9:6

And I said: "My God, I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to you. For our iniquities have been multiplied over our heads, and our offenses have increased, even up to heaven,

Job 30:19

I have been treated like dirt, and I have been turned into embers and ashes.

Job 4:19

How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?

Psalm 144:3

The Lord is great and exceedingly praiseworthy. And there is no end to his greatness.

Psalm 8:4

For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.

Exodus 32:11

Then Moses prayed to the Lord his God, saying: "Why, O Lord, is your fury enraged against your people, whom you led away from the land of Egypt, with great strength and with a mighty hand?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said: "Woe to me! For I have remained silent. For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live in the midst of a people having unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King, the Lord of hosts!"

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works of your hands.

Luke 18:1

Now he also told them a parable, that we should continually pray and not cease,

Luke 5:8

But when Simon Peter had seen this, he fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying, "Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man."