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Genesis 18:27

WEB

27Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

KJV

27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

BSB

27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes

FBV

27Since I've started, let me go on speaking to my Lord, even though I'm nothing but dust and ashes,” Abraham continued.

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Extra References

Genesis 3:19

19You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”


Isaiah 6:5

5Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies!”


1 Corinthians 15:47-48

47The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven. 48As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.


Luke 5:8

8But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesusknees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”


Isaiah 64:8

8But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.


Job 4:19

19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!


Ecclesiastes 12:7

7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.


Job 30:19

19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.


Luke 18:1

1He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,


Genesis 2:7

7The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.