Genesis 18:21

New English Translation

that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:5

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Genesis 18:17

Then the Lord said, “Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

Genesis 6:12

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

Job 34:22

There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

Psalm 14:2

The Lord looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.

Psalm 90:8

You are aware of our sins; you even know about our hidden sins.

Exodus 3:8

I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 33:5

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’”

Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron chisel on their stone-hard hearts. It is inscribed with a diamond point on the horns of their altars.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.

Jonah 1:2

“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention.”

Micah 1:3

Look, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling place! He will descend and march on the earth’s mountaintops!

Zephaniah 1:12

At that time I will search through Jerusalem with lamps. I will punish the people who are entrenched in their sin, those who think to themselves, ‘The Lord neither rewards nor punishes.’

Luke 16:15

But Jesus said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

2 Corinthians 11:11

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Deuteronomy 13:3

You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him with all your mind and being.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Hebrews 4:13

And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

Joshua 22:22

“El, God, the Lord! El, God, the Lord! He knows the truth! Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the Lord, don’t spare us today!