Proverbs 13:8

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Summary

Proverbs 13:8

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

Ransom

1 Peter 1:18

The poor

General references

Luke 12:23

Philippians 3:7

Bible References

Ransom

no, though thou wouldest offer him great gifts to make amends, he will not receive them.

If he be set to a sum of money, then he shall give for the deliverance of his life, according to all that is put unto him.

Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Skin for skin? Yea, a man will give all that ever he hath, for his life.

There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.

Among these eighty men there were ten, that said unto Ishmael, "Oh slay us not, for we have yet a great treasure in the field, of wheat, barley, oil and honey." So he spared them, and slew them not with their brethren.

What shall it profit a man, though he should win all the whole world, if he lose his own soul? Or else, what shall a man give to redeem his soul again withal?

Forasmuch as ye know how that ye were not redeemed with corruptible gold and silver from your vain conversation, which ye received by the traditions of the fathers,

The poor

And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the lords and all the men of might, to the number of ten thousand, into captivity - and all craftsmen and Joiners, none remaining save the poor people of the land.

Nebuzaradan the chief Marshal carried away, and left of the poor of the land to dress the vines and to till the ground.

But Nebuzaradan the chief captain let the rascal people, and those that had nothing, dwell still in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and corn fields at the same time.

In thee also will I leave a small, poor, simple people: which shall trust in the name of the LORD.

General references

The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

But the things that were vantage unto me I counted loss for Christ's sake.