Genesis 18:17

The Message

Then God said, “Shall I keep back from Abraham what I’m about to do? Abraham is going to become a large and strong nation; all the nations of the world are going to find themselves blessed through him. Yes, I’ve settled on him as the one to train his children and future family to observe God’s way of life, live kindly and generously and fairly, so that God can complete in Abraham what he promised him.”

Cross References

Genesis 18:22

The men set out for Sodom, but Abraham stood in God’s path, blocking his way.

Genesis 18:26

God said, “If I find fifty decent people in the city of Sodom, I’ll spare the place just for them.”

Genesis 19:24

Then God rained brimstone and fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah—a river of lava from God out of the sky!—and destroyed these cities and the entire plain and everyone who lived in the cities and everything that grew from the ground.

2 Kings 4:27

But when she reached the Holy Man at the mountain, she threw herself at his feet and held tightly to him. Gehazi came up to pull her away, but the Holy Man said, “Leave her alone—can’t you see that she’s in distress? But God hasn’t let me in on why; I’m completely in the dark.”

Psalm 25:14

God-friendship is for God-worshipers; They are the ones he confides in.