Genesis 18:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.””
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“I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely--and if not--I know;'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 18:21 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 6:12And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
- Genesis 11:5Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
- Genesis 11:7Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
- Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Exodus 33:5For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’”
- Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
- Deuteronomy 13:3you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Joshua 22:22“The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today.
- Job 34:22There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
- Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
- Psalms 139:1O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
- Jeremiah 17:1“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
- Jeremiah 17:10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
- Jonah 1:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
- Micah 1:3For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
- Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
- Luke 16:15So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
- John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
- 2 Corinthians 11:11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
- Hebrews 4:13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
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