Genesis 18:27

New Living Translation

Then Abraham spoke again. “Since I have begun, let me speak further to my Lord, even though I am but dust and ashes.

Cross References

Genesis 18:28

Suppose there are only forty-five righteous people rather than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And the Lord said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five righteous people there.”

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

Ezra 9:6

I prayed, “O my God, I am utterly ashamed; I blush to lift up my face to you. For our sins are piled higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached to the heavens.

Job 30:19

He has thrown me into the mud. I’m nothing more than dust and ashes.

Job 4:19

how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.

Psalm 144:3

O Lord, what are human beings that you should notice them, mere mortals that you should think about them?

Psalm 8:4

what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?

Exodus 32:11

But Moses tried to pacify the Lord his God. “O Lord!” he said. “Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from the land of Egypt with such great power and such a strong hand?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”

Isaiah 64:8

And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We all are formed by your hand.

Luke 18:1

One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.

Luke 5:8

When Simon Peter realized what had happened, he fell to his knees before Jesus and said, “Oh, Lord, please leave me—I’m such a sinful man.”