Genesis 18:27

Modern English Version

Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 18:28

Suppose there were five less than the fifty righteous. Will You destroy all the city for lack of five?” And He said, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, because out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Ezra 9:6

and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities have expanded over our heads and our wrongdoing has grown up to the heavens.

Job 30:19

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

Job 4:19

Even more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Psalm 144:3

Lord, what is man, that You take regard of him? Or the son of a man, that You are mindful of him?

Psalm 8:4

what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You attend to him?

Exodus 32:11

But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, why does Your wrath burn against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Isaiah 6:5

And 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, the Lord of Hosts.”

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O  Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; and we all are the work of Your hand.

Luke 18:1

He told them a parable to illustrate that it is necessary always to pray and not lose heart.

Luke 5:8

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”