Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
- BSB So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”
- NKJV So the Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”
- NASB So the Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the entire place on their account.”
- NLT And the Lord replied, “If I find fifty righteous people in Sodom, I will spare the entire city for their sake.”
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- Jer 5:1“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
- Matt 24:22Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
- Isa 65:8Yahweh says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.
- Ezek 22:30“I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
- Isa 6:13If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled; so the holy seed is its stock.”
- Isa 19:24In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;
- Isa 10:22For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
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