Genesis 18:27

New Century Version

Then Abraham said, “Though I am only dust and ashes, I have been brave to speak to the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 18:28

What if there are only forty-five good people in the city? Will you destroy the whole city for the lack of five good people?” The Lord said, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy the city.”

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living person.

Genesis 3:19

You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust.”

Ezra 9:6

I prayed, “My God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to you, my God, because our sins are so many. They are higher than our heads. Our guilt even reaches up to the sky.

Job 30:19

He throws me into the mud, and I become like dirt and ashes.

Job 4:19

So he puts even more blame on people who live in clay houses, whose foundations are made of dust, who can be crushed like a moth.

Psalm 144:3

Lord, why are people important to you? Why do you even think about human beings?

Psalm 8:4

But why are people even important to you? Why do you take care of human beings?

Exodus 32:11

But Moses begged the Lord his God and said, “Lord, don’t let your anger destroy your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with your great power and strength.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

You will turn back into the dust of the earth again, but your spirit will return to God who gave it.

Isaiah 6:5

I said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure, and I live among people who are not pure, but I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”

Isaiah 64:8

But Lord, you are our father. We are like clay, and you are the potter; your hands made us all.

Luke 18:1

Then Jesus used this story to teach his followers that they should always pray and never lose hope.

Luke 5:8

When Simon Peter saw what had happened, he bowed down before Jesus and said, “Go away from me, Lord. I am a sinful man!”