Psalm 49:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You cannot buy back your life or pay off God!

Cross References

Esther 5:11

and started boasting about his great wealth and all his sons. He told them the many ways that the king had honoured him and how all the other officials and leaders had to respect him.

Proverbs 18:11

the rich think their money is a wall of protection.

Jeremiah 9:22

“The LORD has told us the ground will be covered with dead bodies, like stalks of ungathered grain or like manure.”

Hosea 12:9

Israel, I, the LORD, am still your God, just as I have been since the time you were in Egypt. Now I will force you to live in tents once again, as you did in the desert.

Matthew 16:26

What will you gain, if you own the whole world but destroy yourself? What would you give to get back your soul?

Matthew 20:28

The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue many people.

Matthew 25:9

The girls who were wise answered, “There's not enough oil for all of us! Go and buy some for yourselves.”

Mark 8:37

What could you give to get back your soul?

1 Timothy 2:6

God showed us this at the right time.

1 Peter 1:18

You were rescued from the useless way of life that you learnt from your ancestors. But you know that you were not rescued by such things as silver or gold that don't last for ever.