Genesis 18 (NET)

Genesis 18:1¹The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 14:13Gen 13:18Gen 48:3Acts 7:2Gen 17:22Gen 26:22 Chr 1:7Gen 17:1-3Exod 4:1Gen 12:7

Genesis 18:2²Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:2Gen 18:22Gen 19:1Judg 13:3Gen 23:7Gen 18:16Gen 32:24Gen 43:26Gen 43:28Gen 44:14

Genesis 18:3³He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 18:4⁴Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 19:2Gen 24:32Gen 43:24Luke 7:441 Sam 25:41John 13:5-151 Tim 5:10

Genesis 18:5⁵And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant’s home. After that you may be on your way.” “All right,” they replied, “you may do as you say.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 104:15Judg 13:15Judg 6:18Gen 19:8Gen 33:10Judg 19:5Matt 6:11Isa 3:1

Genesis 18:6⁶So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:13Matt 13:33Rom 12:131 Pet 4:9Acts 16:15Heb 13:2Isa 32:8Luke 10:38-40

Genesis 18:7⁷Then Abraham ran to the herd and chose a fine, tender calf, and gave it to a servant, who quickly prepared it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 13:15-16Amos 6:4Gen 19:3Luke 15:23Luke 15:27Luke 15:30Mal 1:14Matt 22:4

Genesis 18:8⁸Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 19:3Acts 10:41Deut 32:14Gal 5:13John 12:2Judg 13:15Judg 5:25Luke 12:37Luke 17:8Luke 24:30

Genesis 18:9⁹Then they asked him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” He replied, “There, in the tent.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Titus 2:5Gen 24:67Gen 4:9Gen 31:33

Genesis 18:10¹⁰One of them said, “I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:2Gen 17:21Rom 9:8-92 Kgs 4:16-17Gen 17:16Gen 17:19Gal 4:23Gal 4:28Gen 16:10Gen 18:13-14

Genesis 18:11¹¹Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:17Heb 11:11-12Luke 1:36Rom 4:18-21Gen 17:24Heb 11:19Lev 15:19Luke 1:18Luke 1:7Gen 31:35

Genesis 18:12¹²So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:6Gen 17:17Luke 1:18-20Gen 18:13Gen 21:6-7Luke 1:34-35Eph 5:33Heb 11:11-12Ps 126:2

Genesis 18:13¹³The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child when I am old?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 2:25

Genesis 18:14¹⁴Is anything impossible for the Lord? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:37Matt 19:26Mark 10:27Jer 32:27Eph 3:20Job 42:2Phil 4:13Jer 32:17Rom 4:21Num 11:23

Genesis 18:15¹⁵Then Sarah lied, saying, “I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. But the Lord said, “No! You did laugh.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 28:131 John 1:8Eph 4:23Ps 44:21Gen 12:13Gen 4:9Job 2:10John 18:17John 18:25-27John 2:25

Genesis 18:16¹⁶When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 21:53 John 1:6Acts 15:3Acts 20:38Rom 15:24

Genesis 18:17¹⁷Then the Lord said, “Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 3:7Ps 25:14John 15:15Gen 19:24Jas 2:232 Chr 20:72 Kgs 4:27

Genesis 18:18¹⁸After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:8Gen 26:4Gal 3:14Gen 12:2-3Gen 22:17-18Acts 3:25-26Eph 1:3Ps 72:17

Genesis 18:19¹⁹I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then the Lord will give to Abraham what he promised him.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 3:4-5Deut 6:6-7Deut 4:9-10Eph 6:42 Tim 3:15Prov 6:20-22Deut 32:461 Chr 28:91 Tim 3:122 Tim 2:19

Genesis 18:20²⁰So the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatantCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 19:13Ezek 16:49-50Isa 3:9Gen 13:13Gen 4:10Jas 5:4Isa 5:7Jer 14:7

Genesis 18:21²¹that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:8Gen 11:5Josh 22:22Deut 13:3Deut 8:2Exod 33:5Gen 11:7Jer 17:10Luke 16:15Mic 1:3

Genesis 18:22²²The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 19:11 Tim 2:1Acts 7:55Ezek 22:30Jer 18:20Ps 106:23Gen 18:1-2Jer 15:1Gen 18:16

Genesis 18:23²³Abraham approached and said, “Will you really sweep away the godly along with the wicked?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 16:222 Sam 24:17Gen 20:4Gen 18:25Heb 10:22Job 34:17Ps 11:4-7Rom 3:5-6Jer 30:21Job 8:3

Genesis 18:24²⁴What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:9Jer 5:1Gen 18:32Matt 7:13-14Acts 27:24

Genesis 18:25²⁵Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 8:20Isa 3:10-11Job 8:3Ps 58:11Deut 32:4Ps 94:2Rom 3:5-62 Cor 5:10Job 34:17-19John 5:22-27

Genesis 18:26²⁶So the Lord replied, “If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 5:1Matt 24:22Ezek 22:30Isa 65:8Isa 10:22Isa 19:24Isa 6:13

Genesis 18:27²⁷Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 6:5Gen 3:19Luke 5:81 Cor 15:47-48Isa 64:8Job 30:19Eccl 12:7Gen 18:30-32Gen 2:7Job 4:19

Genesis 18:28²⁸what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?” He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 20:32-33Gen 18:26Gen 18:29Job 23:3-4Num 14:17-19

Genesis 18:29²⁹Abraham spoke to him again, “What if forty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 6:18Heb 4:16

Genesis 18:30³⁰Then Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 55:8-9Job 40:4Ps 10:17Esth 4:11-16Gen 44:18Heb 12:28-29Isa 6:5Judg 6:39Ps 89:7Ps 9:12

Genesis 18:31³¹Abraham said, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 11:8Eph 6:18Gen 18:27Heb 10:20-22Heb 4:16Luke 18:1Matt 7:11Matt 7:7

Genesis 18:32³²Finally Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 5:15-17Judg 6:39Matt 7:71 John 5:15-16Eph 3:20Mic 7:18Exod 32:14Exod 32:9-10Exod 33:13-14Exod 34:6-7

Genesis 18:33³³The Lord went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 32:26Gen 18:22Gen 18:16Gen 31:55