Ransom

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Of a man' s life

• Exodus 21:30 If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
• Exodus 30:12 “When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered.
• Job 36:18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.
• Psalm 49:7–8 No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God. For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice,
• Proverbs 6:35 He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.
• Proverbs 13:8 Riches may ransom a man’s life, but a poor man hears no threat.
• Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

Figurative

• Job 33:24 to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
• Isaiah 35:10 So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
• Isaiah 51:10 Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
• Matthew 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
• 1 Timothy 2:6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all — the testimony that was given at just the right time.

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