Genesis 18:27

New English Translation

Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

Cross References

Genesis 18:28

what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?” He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 3:19

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

Ezra 9:6

I prayed, “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.

Job 30:19

He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

Job 4:19

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

Psalm 144:3

O Lord, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?

Psalm 8:4

Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,

Exodus 32:11

But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out 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’s breath returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 6:5

I said, “Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies.”

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

Luke 18:1

Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart.

Luke 5:8

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”