"The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright."
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For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
For 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:
The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and a treacherous [man] in the stead of the upright.
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; The treacherous for the upright.
The wicked `is' an atonement for the righteous, And for the upright the treacherous dealer.