Genesis 18:23
Good News Translation
Abraham approached the LORD and asked, "Are you really going to destroy the innocent with the guilty?

New Revised Standard Version
Then Abraham came near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Contemporary English Version
And Abraham asked him, "LORD, when you destroy the evil people, are you also going to destroy those who are good?

New American Bible
Then Abraham drew near and said: “Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?

drew.

Psalm 73:28 But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

Jeremiah 30:21 And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince shall come forth from the midst of them: and I will bring him near, and he shall come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart to approach to me, saith the Lord?

Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart, in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.

James 5:17 Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth. And it rained not for three years and six months.

Wilt.

Genesis 18:25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Genesis 20:4 Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?

Numbers 16:22 They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against all?

2 Samuel 24:17 And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the people: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these that are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee, be turned against me, and against my father's house.

Job 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

Job 34:17 Can he be healed that loveth not judgment? and how dost thou so far condemn him that is just?

Psalm 11:4-7 For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done? . . .

Romans 3:5,6 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath? . . .

Context
Abraham Begs for Sodom
22And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord. 23And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?24If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?…
Cross References
James 5:16
Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

Genesis 18:24
If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?

Genesis 20:4
Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?

Exodus 23:7
Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.

Numbers 16:22
They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against all?

2 Samuel 24:17
And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the people: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these that are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee, be turned against me, and against my father's house.

Psalm 11:4
For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

Genesis 18:22
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