Genesis 18:27

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Abraham asked, “Consider now, if I may be so bold as to ask you, although I’m ⌞only⌟ dust and ashes,

Cross References

Genesis 18:28

what if there are 45 innocent people? Will you destroy the whole city because of 5 fewer people?” The Lord answered, “I will not destroy it if I find 45 there.”

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the earth  and blew the breath of life into his nostrils. The man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow, you will produce food to eat until you return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Ezra 9:6

and said, “I am ashamed, my God. I am embarrassed to look at you. Our sins have piled up over our heads, and our guilt is so overwhelming that it reaches heaven.

Job 30:19

He throws me into the dirt so that I become like dust and ashes.

Job 4:19

How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust. Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!

Psalm 144:3

O Lord, what are humans that you should care about them? What are mere mortals that you should think about them?

Psalm 8:4

what is a mortal that you remember him or the Son of Man that you take care of him?

Exodus 32:11

But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God. “Lord,” he said, “why are you so angry with your people whom you brought out of Egypt using your great power and mighty hand?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust ⌞of mortals⌟ goes back to the ground as it was before, and the breath of life goes back to God who gave it.

Isaiah 6:5

So I said, “Oh, no! I’m doomed. Every word that passes through my lips is sinful. I live among people with sinful lips. I have seen the king, the Lord of Armies!”

Isaiah 64:8

But now, Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. We are the work of your hands.

Luke 18:1

Jesus used this illustration with his disciples to show them that they need to pray all the time and never give up.

Luke 5:8

When Simon Peter saw this, he knelt in front of Jesus and said, “Leave me, Lord! I’m a sinful person!”