The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.


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Genesis 18 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Exodus 21 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 21 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Exodus 21 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
Exodus 22 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exodus 23 7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Deuteronomy 1 39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Deuteronomy 23 9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
Deuteronomy 25 1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Deuteronomy 32 35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Joshua 10 19 And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.
Joshua 23 15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
1 Samuel 12 25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
1 Samuel 24 13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
2 Samuel 22 28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
1 Kings 1 52 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.
1 Kings 8 32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
1 Kings 8 46 If they sin against thee, for there is no man that sinneth not, and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
1 Kings 8 47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
2 Chronicles 6 23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
2 Chronicles 6 36 If they sin against thee, for there is no man which sinneth not, and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
2 Chronicles 6 37 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
Ezra 7 26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Ezra 9 13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
Job 3 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Job 4 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 5 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Job 10 3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 11 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Job 12 6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Job 18 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job 20 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Job 20 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Job 21 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Job 24 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job 27 7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Job 27 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Job 34 10 Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
Job 35 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Job 36 6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
Job 36 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
Job 36 21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Job 38 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
Psalms 1 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Psalms 7 1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
Psalms 7 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
Psalms 9 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 9 19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
Psalms 10 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 10 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.