Genesis 18:27

Good News Translation

Abraham spoke again: “Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. I am only a man and have no right to say anything.

Cross References

Genesis 18:28

But perhaps there will be only forty-five innocent people instead of fifty. Will you destroy the whole city because there are five too few?” The Lord answered, “I will not destroy the city if I find forty-five innocent people.”

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

Genesis 3:19

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again.”

Ezra 9:6

I said, “O God, I am too ashamed to raise my head in your presence. Our sins pile up higher than our heads; they reach as high as the heavens.

Job 30:19

He throws me down in the mud; I am no better than dirt.

Job 4:19

Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?

Psalm 144:3

Lord, what are mortals, that you notice them; mere mortals, that you pay attention to us?

Psalm 8:4

what are human beings, that you think of them; mere mortals, that you care for them?

Exodus 32:11

But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God and said, “Lord, why should you be so angry with your people, whom you rescued from Egypt with great might and power?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Our bodies will return to the dust of the earth, and the breath of life will go back to God, who gave it to us.

Isaiah 6:5

I said, “There is no hope for me! I am doomed because every word that passes my lips is sinful, and I live among a people whose every word is sinful. And yet, with my own eyes I have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

Isaiah 64:8

But you are our father, Lord. We are like clay, and you are like the potter. You created us,

Luke 18:1

Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to teach them that they should always pray and never become discouraged.

Luke 5:8

When Simon Peter saw what had happened, he fell on his knees before Jesus and said, “Go away from me, Lord! I am a sinful man!”