32And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
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And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. …
And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. …
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-33)Communion with God is kept up by the word and by prayer. In the word God speaks to us; in prayer we speak to him. God had revealed to Abraham his purposes concerning Sodom; now from this Abraham takes occasion to speak to God on Sodom’s behalf. Note, God’s word then does us good when it furnishes us with matter for prayer and excites us to it. When God has spoken to us, we must consider what we ha…
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