Psalm 49:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life; there is no price one can give to God for it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ None of them can by any means redeem [either himself or] his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him–

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him

Common English Bible

⁷ Wealth? It can’t save a single person! It can’t pay a life’s ransom-price to God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.

Psalm 49:7 Cross References

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

Matthew 25:9

But the wise replied, ‘No! there will not be enough for you and for us; you had better go to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself a ransom for all —this was attested at the right time.

Esther 5:11

and Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the ministers of the king.

Proverbs 18:11

The wealth of the rich is their strong city; in their imagination it is like a high wall.

Jeremiah 9:22

Speak! Thus says the Lord: “Human corpses shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves behind the reaper, and no one shall gather them.”

Hosea 12:9

I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of the appointed festival.

Mark 8:37

Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?