Genesis 18:27 · KJV
“And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and ashes:”
— Genesis 18:27
And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for {lack of} five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy {it}.
Genesis 18 — Context
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
26And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and ashes:
28Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for {lack of} five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy {it}.
29And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do {it} for forty's sake.
Cross References
Isaiah 6:5
Then said I, Woe {is} me! for I am undone; because I {am} a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. {undone: Heb. cut off}
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou {art}, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Luke 5:8
When Simon Peter saw {it}, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, thou {art} our father; we {are} the clay, and thou our potter; and we all {are} the work of thy hand.
1 Corinthians 15:47-48
The first man {is} of the earth, earthy: the second man {is} the Lord from heaven.
Psalms 8:4
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Luke 18:1
And he spake a parable unto them {to this end}, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;