Genesis 18:32
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Finally, Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are found there?” And He answered, “On account of the ten, I will not destroy it.”
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Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew.”
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
Then Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak further. Suppose thirty are found there?” He replied, “If I find thirty there, I will not do it.”
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.
For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.