Psalms 49:8

World English Bible (2000)

For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 36:18-19 : 18 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside. 19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 49:6-7
    2 verses
    86%

    6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches--

    7none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

  • Ps 49:9
    77%

    9That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

  • Ps 72:14
    76%

    14He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

  • Ps 49:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

    15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

  • Job 33:28
    70%

    28He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'

  • Lev 25:48-49
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    48after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

    49or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.

  • Ps 89:48
    70%

    48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

  • Mark 8:36-37
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    36For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

    37For what will a man give in exchange for his life?

  • Ps 34:22
    69%

    22Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned. By David.

  • Lev 25:26
    69%

    26If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

  • Hos 13:14
    69%

    14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

  • Lev 25:51-52
    2 verses
    69%

    51If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

    52If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.

  • Ps 49:17-19
    3 verses
    69%

    17For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

    18Though while he lived he blessed his soul-- and men praise you when you do well for yourself--

    19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

  • Ps 130:8
    69%

    8He will redeem Israel from all their sins. A Song of Ascents. By David.

  • Isa 52:3
    69%

    3For thus says Yahweh, "You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money."

  • Ps 33:19
    68%

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

  • Lev 27:29
    68%

    29"'No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

  • Prov 6:35
    68%

    35He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

  • Prov 23:11
    68%

    11for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

  • Prov 13:8
    68%

    8The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

  • 1 Pet 1:18
    68%

    18knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

  • Ps 49:11-12
    2 verses
    67%

    11Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

    12But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

  • Job 28:15
    67%

    15It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

  • Job 33:18
    67%

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

  • Ps 116:15
    67%

    15Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.

  • Ps 73:4
    67%

    4For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

  • Job 33:24
    67%

    24then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'

  • Job 33:22
    67%

    22Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

  • Job 15:29
    67%

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

  • Job 28:13
    67%

    13Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

  • Ezek 7:13
    67%

    13For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

  • Job 36:18
    67%

    18Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

  • Ezek 18:4
    66%

    4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.

  • Ps 69:18
    66%

    18Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

  • Eccl 9:5-6
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    66%

    5For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

    6Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

  • Matt 16:26
    66%

    26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

  • Lev 25:24
    66%

    24In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

  • Lam 3:58
    66%

    58Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

  • Isa 57:1
    66%

    1The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].

  • Ps 44:12
    66%

    12You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

  • Exod 21:30
    66%

    30If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.