Genesis 18:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁸ seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?^{[a] 19} No, for I have chosen^[b] him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice; so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.’ ²⁰ Then the Lord said, ‘How great is the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah and how very grave their sin!