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Ransom Payment offered to secure someone else's release from slavery or prison. It is therefore used to describe what was achieved by the death of Jesus, being close in meaning to redemption. (cff. Matt 20:28; 1 Tim. 2:6)
Key KJV Scriptures:
Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45; 1 Timothy 2:5-6
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
15 indexed verses · Showing 1–15. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Exodus 21:30 (KJV)
If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
Exodus 30:12 (KJV)
When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
Job 33:24 (KJV)
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Job 36:18 (KJV)
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Psalms 49:7 (KJV)
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Psalms 49:8 (KJV)
(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
Proverbs 6:35 (KJV)
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Proverbs 13:8 (KJV)
The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
Isaiah 35:10 (KJV)
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isaiah 51:10 (KJV)
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
Hosea 13:14 (KJV)
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Matthew 20:28 (KJV)
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Mark 10:45 (KJV)
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
1 Timothy 2:5 (KJV)
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1 Timothy 2:6 (KJV)
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
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