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Ask a QuestionFar be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.
And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Then Abraham drew near and said, "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
And the Lord said, "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there." He answered, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?
Again he spoke to him and said, "Suppose forty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of forty I will not do it."
He said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it."
Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?" And he said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."
Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it."
So we overthrew them;Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished;and we laid waste as far as Nophah;fire spread as far as Medeba."
As many as you offer, so shall you do with each one, as many as there are.
Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;as with the slave, so with his master;as with the maid, so with her mistress;as with the buyer, so with the seller;as with the lender, so with the borrower;as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.
And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.