⁹ I will be a pledge of his safety. From my hand you shall require him. ^(A)If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.

³⁷ Then Reuben said to his father, “Kill ^(A)my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.”

²² This makes Jesus the guarantor of ^(A)a better covenant.

¹⁸ If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account. ^19 (A)I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.

³² For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ^(A)‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’ ³³ Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

^8 (A)If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, ^(B)and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, ^(C)that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

^6 (A)But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, ^(B)that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.

^20 (A)Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, ^(B)and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. ^(C)Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, ^(D)and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, ^(E)but his blood I will require at your hand.

^18 (A)If I say to the wicked, ^(B)‘You shall surely die,’ ^(C)and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person ^(D)shall die for^[a] his iniquity, ^(E)but his blood I will require at your hand.