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Proverbs 21:18
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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.
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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 (KJV alignment witness)
Straight or erect; also honest, just, and faithful to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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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.
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