Proverbs 21:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, And the transgressor for the upright.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ The wicked become a ransom for the [uncompromisingly] righteous, and the treacherous for the upright [because the wicked themselves fall into the traps and pits they have dug for the good].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; And the treacherous cometh in the stead of the upright.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The wicked are a ransom for the righteous; the treacherous will be punished in the place of the virtuous.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ The impious is given over instead of the just, and the iniquitous is given over in place of the upright.

Proverbs 21:18 Krydshenvisninger

Proverbs 11:8

The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked gets into it instead.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;