Genesis 18:25
No, you can't do something like that! You can't kill the good with the wicked, otherwise you would be treating the good and the wicked in the same way. You can't do that! Isn't the Judge of all the earth going to do the right thing?”
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26“If I find fifty good people in Sodom, I'll spare the whole town because of them,” the Lord replied.
Cross References
Numbers 16:22But Moses and Aaron fell facedown on the ground said, “God—God of everything that lives—when it's only one man who sins, must you be angry with everybody?”
1 Chronicles 16:33Let all the trees in the forest sing for joy, for he is coming to judge the earth.
Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Job 9:22That's why I say, ‘It makes no difference to God. He destroys both the innocent and the wicked.’
Job 34:12It's absolutely sure that God doesn't act wickedly; the Almighty would never pervert justice.
Psalms 7:12If people do not change their minds, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent and strung his bow.
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 →