Proverbs 21:18
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18 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous
and the faithless for the upright.(A)
Proverbs 11:8
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8 The righteous are delivered from trouble,
and the wicked come into it instead.(A)
Isaiah 43:3-4
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3 For I am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
I give Egypt as your ransom,
Cush and Seba in exchange for you.(A)
4 Because you are precious in my sight
and honored and I love you,
I give people in return for you,
nations in exchange for your life.(B)
Isaiah 53:4-5
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4 Surely he has borne our infirmities
and carried our diseases,
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.(A)
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
and by his bruises we are healed.(B)
1 Peter 3:18
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18 For Christ also suffered[a] for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you[b] to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,(A)
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Isaiah 55:8-9
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8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.(A)
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