Genesis 18:26
Good News Translation
The LORD answered, "If I find fifty innocent people in Sodom, I will spare the whole city for their sake."

New Revised Standard Version
And the LORD said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will forgive the whole place for their sake.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD replied, "If I find 50 good people in Sodom, I will save the city to keep them from being killed."

New American Bible
The LORD replied: If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.

Isaiah 6:13 And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.

Isaiah 10:22 For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be converted, the consumption abridged shall overflow with justice.

Isaiah 19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third to the Egyptian and the Assyrian: a blessing in the midst of the land,

Isaiah 65:8 Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster, and it be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the sake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole.

Jeremiah 5:1 Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none.

Matthew 24:22 And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.

Context
Abraham Begs for Sodom
25Far 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. 26And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.27And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:17
And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to do:

Jeremiah 5:1
Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

Genesis 18:25
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