Matthew 16:26

For what will a man be profited, if be gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

1 Peter 1:18-19

knowing that not with perishable things, silver or gold, were ye redeemed from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

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Ransom

Matthew 16:26
For what will a man be profited, if be gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
1 Peter 1:18
knowing that not with perishable things, silver or gold, were ye redeemed from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers,

General references

Luke 12:23
The life is more than its food, and the body than its raiment.
Philippians 3:7
But whatever things were gain to me, those for the sake of Christ I have counted but loss.