1 Kings 20:39
When the king went by he cried out to him: Your servant went out into the fight. A man came to me. He brought a man to me and said: 'guard this man. Do not let him get away. Your life is the price of his life or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment.'
2 Kings 10:24
They went in to make offerings and burned offerings. Jehu put eighty men outside. He told them: If any man whom I give into your hands escapes, he who lets him go will forfeit his own life for that life.
Exodus 21:30
If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him.
Judges 9:7-20
Jotham heard about this. He stood on top of Mount Gerizim and shouted out to them: Men of Shechem, listen to me and God may listen to you!
2 Samuel 12:1-7
Jehovah sent Nathan to David. Nathan came to him and said: There were two men in a certain city. One was rich and the other was poor.
2 Samuel 14:5-7
The king asked her: What can I do for you? She answered: I am a widow; my husband is dead.
1 Kings 20:42
He said to him: These are the words of Jehovah: 'Because you have let go from your hands the man whom I had put to the curse, your life will be taken for his life, and your people for his people.'
Job 36:18
Be careful that no one entices you by riches. Do not let a large bribe turn you aside.
Psalm 49:7
No one can ever redeem (buy back) his brother or pay God a ransom for his life.
Proverbs 6:35
He will not regard any ransom, nor will he be content when you give many gifts.
Proverbs 13:8
The ransom of a man's life is his riches. The poor [in spirit] does not listen to rebuke.
Mark 12:1-12
He taught them with illustrations: A man had a vineyard planted. He built a wall around it. He prepared a place for crushing out the wine and put up a tower. Then he rented it out to field workers, and went into another country.
1 Peter 1:18-19
Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,