'Price' in the Bible

Gold and glass are not equal to it in price, and it may not be exchanged for jewels of the best gold.

No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

Then the angel is gracious to him, and says,‘Spare him from going down to the pit [of destruction];I have found a ransom [a consideration, or reason for redemption, an atonement]!’

Like godless jesters at a feast,They gnashed at me with their teeth [in malice].

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price

since the price of redeeming him is too costly,one should forever stop trying—

He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price:

Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;

because the price of a whore is a loaf of bread, and an adulterous woman stalks a man's precious life.

He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.

An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.

Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

There is gold and a store of corals: but the lips of knowledge are a jewel of great price.

The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work.

She makes linen robes and gets a price for them, and traders take her cloth bands for a price.

A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.

Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.

Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.

In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.

And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it.

Therefore through this Jacob’s iniquity will be forgiven;And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin:When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price,

But now, this is what the Lord, your Creator says, O Jacob,And He who formed you, O Israel,“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you [from captivity];I have called you by name; you are Mine!

For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your deliverer. I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price, Ethiopia and Seba in place of you.

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come.

So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.

Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.

Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

My mountain in the field, your wealth and your treasures I'll give as spoil; along with your high places as the price of your sin throughout your territory.

For the Lord has given a price for Jacob, and made him free from the hands of him who was stronger than he.

See, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your father's brother, will come to you and say, Give the price and get for yourself my property in Anathoth: for you have the right of the nearest relation.

So Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, came to me, as the Lord had said, to the place of the armed watchmen, and said to me, Give the price and get my property which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for you have the nearest relation's right to the heritage; so get it for yourself. Then it was clear to me that this was the word of the Lord.

So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver;

At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

We must pay for the water we drink;our wood comes at a price.

We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food.

The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:

For the trader will not go back to the things for which he had his price, even while he is still living:

And he who has given a price for goods will not get them, for my wrath is on all of them.

In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

The traders of Sheba and Raamah did trade with you; they gave the best of all sorts of spices and all sorts of stones of great price and gold for your goods.

You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.

And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.

And he hath dealt in the fortresses of the strongholds with a strange god whom he hath acknowledged; he multiplieth honour, and hath caused them to rule over many, and the ground he apportioneth at a price.

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley [the price of a common slave].

I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.

And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:

I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;

asking, “When will the New Moon be overso we may sell grain,and the Sabbath,so we may market wheat?We can reduce the measurewhile increasing the priceand cheat with dishonest scales.

Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.

And all her pictured images will be hammered into bits, and all the payments for her loose ways will be burned with fire, and all the images of her gods I will make waste: for with the price of a loose woman she got them together, and as the price of a loose woman will they be given back.

Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe,Her priests instruct for a priceAnd her prophets divine for money.Yet they lean on the Lord saying,“Is not the Lord in our midst?Calamity will not come upon us.”

With the sound of the pipe I will get them together; for I have given the price to make them free: and they will be increased as they were increased.

Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many [paying the price to set them free from the penalty of sin].”

There came to him a woman having a bottle of perfume of great price, and she put the perfume on his head when he was seated at table.

Surely this perfume could've been sold for a high price and the money given to the destitute."

What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.

And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;

And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.

For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.

(Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

And they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing the proceeds with all [the other believers], as anyone had need.

For neither was there any one in want among them; for as many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, brought the price of what was sold

And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

“Tell me,” Peter asked her, “did you sell the field for this price?”“Yes,” she said, “for that price.”

They were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought at a high price from Hamor's descendants in Shechem.

But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.

Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

The commander replied, “I purchased this citizenship [of mine] for a large sum of money [so how did you acquire yours?].” Paul said, “But I was actually born a citizen.”

But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

who gave Himself as the redemption price for all--a fact testified to at its own appointed time,

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,

Marriage is to be held in honor among all [that is, regarded as something of great value], and the marriage bed undefiled [by immorality or by any sexual sin]; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

And they made as it seemed a new song before the high seat, and before the four beasts and the rulers: and no man might have knowledge of the song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, even those from the earth whom God has made his for a price.

And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires;

Gold, and silver, and stones of great price, and jewels, and delicate linen, and robes of purple and silk and red; and perfumed wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of fair wood, and of brass, and iron, and stone;

Saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, she who was clothed in delicate linen, and purple, and red; with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels!

And He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the one who thirsts I will give [water] from the fountain of the water of life without cost.