Genesis 18:23

Good News Translation

Abraham approached the Lord and asked, “Are you really going to destroy the innocent with the guilty?

Cross References

Genesis 18:24

If there are fifty innocent people in the city, will you destroy the whole city? Won't you spare it in order to save the fifty?

Genesis 18:25

Surely you won't kill the innocent with the guilty. That's impossible! You can't do that. If you did, the innocent would be punished along with the guilty. That is impossible. The judge of all the earth has to act justly.”

Genesis 20:4

But Abimelech had not come near her, and he said, “Lord, I am innocent! Would you destroy me and my people?

2 Samuel 24:17

David saw the angel who was killing the people, and said to the Lord, “I am the guilty one. I am the one who did wrong. What have these poor people done? You should punish me and my family.”

Job 34:17

Are you condemning the righteous God? Do you think that he hates justice?

Job 8:3

God never twists justice; he never fails to do what is right.

Psalm 73:28

But as for me, how wonderful to be near God, to find protection with the Sovereign Lord and to proclaim all that he has done!

Exodus 23:7

Do not make false accusations, and do not put an innocent person to death, for I will condemn anyone who does such an evil thing.

Jeremiah 30:21

Their ruler will come from their own nation, their prince from their own people. He will approach me when I invite him, for who would dare come uninvited? They will be my people, and I will be their God. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron bowed down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, you are the source of all life. When one of us sins, do you become angry with the whole community?”

Hebrews 10:22

So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water.

James 5:16

So then, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you will be healed. The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect.

James 5:17

Elijah was the same kind of person as we are. He prayed earnestly that there would be no rain, and no rain fell on the land for three and a half years.