Genesis 18:27

New International Version

Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,

Cross References

Genesis 18:28

what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust 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 your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Ezra 9:6

and prayed: “I am too ashamed and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.

Job 30:19

He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!

Psalm 144:3

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

Psalm 8:4

what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?

Exodus 32:11

But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God. “Lord,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 6:5

“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

Isaiah 64:8

Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Luke 18:1

Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

Luke 5:8

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”