Genesis 18:3 (BSB)

“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.

From Genesis 18. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Genesis 18:3

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Genesis 18:3: 3. Pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant In asking thus meekly, and even suppliantly, there is no doubt that Abraham does it, moved by the reason which I have stated. For if he had slaughtered calves for all kinds of travelers, his house would soon have been emptied by his profuse expenditure.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 18:1-8: The appearance of God to Abraham seems to have had in it more of freedom and familiarity, and less of grandeur and majesty, than those we have hitherto read of; and therefore more resembles that great visit which, in the fullness of time, the Son of God was to make to the world, when the Word would be flesh, and appear as one of us. Observe here, I.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 18:3: And said, my Lord,.... He addressed himself to one of them who appeared to him to be the greatest and most honourable, either by the appearance of his countenance, or by his dress, or by the situation in which he was between the other two, and by their carriage and behaviour to him: if now I have found favour in thy sight; signifying he should...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Genesis 18:3: My Lord, if now I have found favor--The hospitalities offered are just of the kind that are necessary and most grateful, the refreshment of water, for feet exposed to dust and heat by the sandals, being still the first observed among the pastoral people of Hebron.