Proverbs 21:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.

Proverbs 21:18 Cross References

Proverbs 11:8

The righteous is delivered out of trouble, And the wicked cometh in his stead.

1 Peter 3:18

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit;