Genesis 18:25
Far be it from you to do this thing, and to kill the just with the impious, and for the just to be treated like the impious. No, this is not like you. You judge all the earth; you would never make such a judgment.”
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Numbers 16:22But they fell prone on their faces, and they said, “O most strong One, the God of the spirits of all flesh, should your anger rage against all, for the sin of one?”
1 Chronicles 16:33Then the trees of the forest will give praise before the Lord. For he comes to judge the earth.
Job 8:3Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?
Job 9:22There is one thing that I have said: both the innocent and the impious he consumes.
Job 34:12For truly, God will not condemn in vain, nor will the Almighty repudiate judgment.
Psalms 7:12God is a just judge, strong and patient. How could he be angry throughout every day?
Matthew Henry on Genesis 18:24-33
Abraham's Intercession for Sodom. ( b. c. 1898.) 23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25 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? 26 And the Lord said, If I… Read the whole commentary →