Genesis 12:2
2 aAnd I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Genesis 18:24-33
24Suppose 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? 25Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, bso that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! cShall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” 26And the Lord said, d“If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”27Abraham answered and said, e“Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. 28Suppose 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.” 29Again he spoke to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.” 30Then 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.” 31He 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.” 32Then he said, f“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.” 33And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 19:29
29So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God gremembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.Job 42:8
8Now therefore take hseven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and ioffer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall jpray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”Psalms 106:23
23Therefore khe said he would destroy them—had not Moses, his lchosen one,
mstood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
Psalms 106:30
30Then nPhinehas stood up and intervened,and the plague was stayed.
Ezekiel 22:30
30 oAnd I sought for a man among them pwho should build up the wall qand stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.Acts 27:24
24and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; ryou must stand before Caesar. And behold, sGod has granted you all those who sail with you.’
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