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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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

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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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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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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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 24:22 chosen ones’

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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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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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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