Genesis 18:23
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And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?

James 5:16
Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

Genesis 18:24
If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?

Genesis 20:4
Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?

Exodus 23:7
Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.

Numbers 16:22
They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against all?

2 Samuel 24:17
And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the people: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these that are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee, be turned against me, and against my father's house.

Psalm 11:4
For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

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And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?

drew.

Psalm 73:28 But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

Jeremiah 30:21 And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince shall come forth from the midst of them: and I will bring him near, and he shall come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart to approach to me, saith the Lord?

Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart, in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.

James 5:17 Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth. And it rained not for three years and six months.

Wilt.

Genesis 18:25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Genesis 20:4 Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?

Numbers 16:22 They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against all?

2 Samuel 24:17 And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the people: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these that are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee, be turned against me, and against my father's house.

Job 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

Job 34:17 Can he be healed that loveth not judgment? and how dost thou so far condemn him that is just?

Psalm 11:4-7 For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done? . . .

Romans 3:5,6 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath? . . .

Context
Abraham Begs for Sodom
22And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord. 23And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?24If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?…
Lexicon
Abraham
אַבְרָהָ֖ם (’aḇ·rā·hām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 85: Abraham -- 'exalted father', the father of the Jewish nation

stepped forward
וַיִּגַּ֥שׁ (way·yig·gaš)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5066: To draw near, approach

and said,
וַיֹּאמַ֑ר (way·yō·mar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“Will You really
הַאַ֣ף (ha·’ap̄)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 637: Meaning accession, yea, adversatively though

sweep away
תִּסְפֶּ֔ה (tis·peh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5595: To sweep or snatch away, catch up

the righteous
צַדִּ֖יק (ṣad·dîq)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6662: Just, righteous

with
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5973: With, equally with

the wicked?
רָשָֽׁע׃ (rā·šā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7563: Wrong, an, bad person


Additional Translations
Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?And Abraham drew near, and said, Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?

And Abraam drew nigh and said, Wouldest thou destroy the righteous with the wicked, and shall the righteous be as the wicked?

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also cause the righteous to perish with the wicked?

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, 'Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked?
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