Proverbs 24:11

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn unto death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;

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  • Ps 82:4 : 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.
  • Isa 58:6-7 : 6 [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7 [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
  • Luke 10:31-32 : 31 ‹And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.› 32 ‹And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked› [on him], ‹and passed by on the other side.›
  • Luke 23:23-25 : 23 And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. 24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required. 25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
  • Acts 18:17 : 17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat [him] before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
  • Acts 21:31-32 : 31 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. 32 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
  • Acts 23:10 : 10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring [him] into the castle.
  • Acts 23:23-35 : 23 And he called unto [him] two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night; 24 And provide [them] beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring [him] safe unto Felix the governor. 25 And he wrote a letter after this manner: 26 Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix [sendeth] greeting. 27 This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman. 28 And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council: 29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds. 30 And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what [they had] against him. Farewell. 31 Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought [him] by night to Antipatris. 32 On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle: 33 Who, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him. 34 And when the governor had read [the letter], he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that [he was] of Cilicia; 35 I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.
  • 1 John 3:16-17 : 16 Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
  • 1 Sam 26:8-9 : 8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the second time. 9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?
  • Job 29:17 : 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

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  • 10 ¶ [If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.

  • 12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider [it]? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth [not] he know [it]? and shall [not] he render to [every] man according to his works?

  • 19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

  • 14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.

  • 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

  • 18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

  • 27 ¶ Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it].

  • 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.

  • Ezek 3:18-21
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    18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

    19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

    20 Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

    21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous [man], that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

  • Job 36:17-18
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    17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].

    18 Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

  • 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.

  • 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

  • 18 Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Job 24:22-23
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    22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.

    23 [Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.

  • 8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

  • 24 Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

  • 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

  • 17 For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].

  • 4 ¶ Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

  • 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

  • 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

  • 14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

  • 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

  • 12 ¶ A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.

  • 8 And if [they be] bound in fetters, [and] be holden in cords of affliction;

  • 3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.

  • 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;

  • 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

  • 2 For if thou refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them still,

  • 15 ¶ He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

  • 2 Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

  • 18 [It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

  • 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  • 1 ¶ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].

  • 16 ¶ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

  • 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].

  • 18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

  • 22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

  • 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

  • 5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

  • 5 He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

  • 19 ¶ A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.