Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Ransom

Matthew 16:26
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his life? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his life?
1 Peter 1:18
knowing that you were not redeemed from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers, with destructible things, silver or gold,

General references

Luke 12:23
Is not the soul more than the food, and the body than the clothing?
Philippians 3:7
But whatever things were my gain, these I have considered a loss for the sake of Christ.