For their sakes

but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? Gen 18:23-24

Remember when Sodom and Gomorrah were about to be destroyed. For the righteous few Abraham asked if God could spare the cities. The numbers however did not get to what he asked pardon for. He started at fifty went down to forty, 45, 40, 30, till he was at ten. For that number the Lord had agreed that He would spare the city. Now only four could be found and so the city had to be destroyed. Imagine a city however small and would ten not be a very small number. Imagine what level of sin abounded in that city, that only four people qualified to be saved. Doesn’t imagining it even bring shudders to you when you look at what is happening today? How many even seem righteous in the world we live in today? How much is being condoned as not sin but a way of living these days. Things have changed. But have they really changed? Sin is still sin. However much we wish to dress it up and call it a new way of life or a new perspective, IT IS STILL SIN.
But rejoice for not all is lost. For your prayer, for just your petition, the Lord can and still will save your loved ones from whatever situation that may be around them.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.-James 5:16