26 So the Lord said, (A)“If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”

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26 The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.(A)

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The Justice of God’s Judgment

“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem;
See now and know;
And seek in her open places
(A)If you can find a man,
(B)If there is anyone who executes [a]judgment,
Who seeks the truth,
(C)And I will pardon her.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:1 justice

Not One Is Upright

“Go up and down(A) the streets of Jerusalem,
    look around and consider,(B)
    search through her squares.
If you can find but one person(C)
    who deals honestly(D) and seeks the truth,
    I will forgive(E) this city.

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30 (A)So I sought for a man among them who would (B)make a wall, and (C)stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.

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30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall(A) and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.(B)

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Thus says the Lord:

“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
And one says, ‘Do not destroy it,
For (A)a blessing is in it,’
So will I do for My servants’ sake,
That I may not destroy them (B)all.

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This is what the Lord says:

“As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes(A)
    and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it,
    there is still a blessing in it,’
so will I do in behalf of my servants;(B)
    I will not destroy them all.

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22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; (A)but for the [a]elect’s sake those days will be shortened.

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  1. Matthew 24:22 chosen ones’

22 “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect(A) those days will be shortened.

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24 In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing in the midst of the land,

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24 In that day(A) Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria,(B) a blessing[a](C) on the earth.

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  1. Isaiah 19:24 Or Assyria, whose names will be used in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or Assyria, who will be seen by others as blessed

22 (A)For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea,
(B)A remnant of them will return;
The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

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22 Though your people be like the sand(A) by the sea, Israel,
    only a remnant will return.(B)
Destruction has been decreed,(C)
    overwhelming and righteous.

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13 But yet a tenth will be in it,
And will return and be for consuming,
As a terebinth tree or as an oak,
Whose stump remains when it is cut down.
So (A)the holy seed shall be its stump.”

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13 And though a tenth remains(A) in the land,
    it will again be laid waste.(B)
But as the terebinth and oak
    leave stumps(C) when they are cut down,
    so the holy(D) seed will be the stump in the land.”(E)

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