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Proverbs 21:18–19
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Proverbs 21:18
18The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
18*The wicked shalbe a ransome for the righteous; and the transgressour for the vpright.
- Chap. 11.18.
Proverbs 21:19
19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
19†† It is better to dwell in the wildernesse, then with a contentious and an angry woman.
- Verse 9.
- Heb. in the land of the desert.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 21:18
A price, substitute, or means by which release or deliverance is obtained.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Just, right, or conforming to God's law and judgment; equitable or upright; as a noun, a person characterized as righteous.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
transgressor
One who breaks or passes beyond a law, command, duty, or rightful boundary.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890
Straight or erect; also honest, just, and faithful to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 21:19
More excellent, more fitting, or to a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
contentious
Apt to contend; given to angry debate; quarrelsome; perverse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Feeling or showing anger; wrathful or provoked.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
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From verse 18
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Open the full verse study8The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
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Open the full verse study3For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
4Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
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Open the full verse study4¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
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Open the full verse study18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
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Open the full verse study8¶ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
From verse 19
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Open the full verse study9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
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Open the full verse study6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
7Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
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Open the full verse study5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
6My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
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Open the full verse study2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
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