New Revised Standard Version
He said to him, “Very well, I grant you this favor too, and will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Contemporary English Version
"All right, go there," he answered. "I won't destroy that town.

New American Bible
“Well, then,” he replied, “I grant you this favor too. I will not overthrow the town you have mentioned.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.

And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.

See, I.

Genesis 4:7 If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin forthwith be present at the door? but the lust thereof shall be under thee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.

Job 42:8,9 Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath. . . .

Psalm 34:15 The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers.

Psalm 102:17 He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

Psalm 145:19 He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them.

Jeremiah 14:10 Thus saith the Lord to this people, that have loved to move their feet, and have not rested, and have not pleased the Lord: He will now remember their iniquities, and visit their sins.

Matthew 12:20 The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory.

Luke 11:8 Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

Hebrews 2:17 Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 4:15,16 For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin. . . .

thee.

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

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?