Proverbs 21:18

WEB

¹⁸The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, the treacherous for the upright.

KJV

¹⁸The wicked^[+] shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

BSB

¹⁸The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.

FBV

¹⁸The wicked pay the price and not the good; those who are deceitful and not those who live right.

Extra References

Proverbs 11:8

⁸A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

³For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. ⁴Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

Isaiah 53:4-5

⁴Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. ⁵But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

1 Peter 3:18

¹⁸Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

Isaiah 55:8-9

⁸“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says the LORD. ⁹“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.