Proverbs 13:8
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8 Wealth is a ransom for a person’s life,
but a poor person pays no attention to a rebuke.
Matthew 16:26
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26 For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
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1 Peter 1:18-19
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18 You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.(A)
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Psalm 49:6-10
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6 those who trust in their wealth
and boast of the abundance of their riches?(A)
7 Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life;[a]
there is no price one can give to God for it.(B)
8 For the ransom of life is costly
and can never suffice,(C)
9 that one should live on forever
and never see the Pit.(D)
10 When we look at the wise, they die;
fool and dolt perish together
and leave their wealth to others.(E)
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- 49.7 Or no one can ransom a brother
Job 2:4
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4 Then the accuser[a] answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that the man has he will give for his life.
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- 2.4 Heb the satan
Zephaniah 3:12
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12 For I will leave in the midst of you
a people humble and lowly.
They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord—(A)
Jeremiah 41:8
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8 But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields.” So he refrained and did not kill them along with their companions.
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Jeremiah 39:10
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10 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.(A)
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Proverbs 6:35
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35 He will accept no compensation
and will refuse a bribe no matter how great.
2 Kings 25:12
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12 But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to be vinedressers and tillers of the soil.(A)
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2 Kings 24:14
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14 He carried away all Jerusalem, all the officials, all the warriors, ten thousand captives, all the artisans and the smiths; no one remained except the poorest people of the land.(A)
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Exodus 21:30
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30 If a ransom is imposed on the owner, then the owner shall pay whatever is imposed for the redemption of the victim’s life.(A)
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