Proverbs 21:18

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Proverbs 21:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

17 He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

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

19 Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

20 Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.

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Proverbs 11:8

The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.

Isaiah 43:3

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Isaiah 43:4

Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.

Isaiah 53:4

Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:5

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 55:8

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 55:9

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,