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- Proverbs 20:22: Do Not Say, I'll Pay You Back
Proverbs 20:22 says, "Do not say, 'I'll pay you back for this wrong!' Wait for the LORD, and he will avenge you." Read it (NIV, KJV), what the Hebrew words mean, its context, and a plain reading.
- Bible Verses About Redemption: 15 Scriptures
Bible verses about redemption: 15 Scriptures on being bought back by Christ's blood, freedom from slavery to sin, and ransom love.
- Bible Verses About Redemption: How God's Love Redeems Us
Bible verses on redemption and God's redeeming love, from Ruth's kinsman redeemer to Ephesians 1:7, and what being redeemed means today.
- Bible Verses About the Kinsman Redeemer: 12 Scriptures on Boaz, Ruth and Jesus
A kinsman redeemer (go'el) was a near relative who bought back family land and people. Leviticus 25 and Ruth 3-4 show the role; Jesus is our Redeemer.
- Luke 6:35: Love Your Enemies, Do Good, and Lend
Luke 6:35 says, "Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back." Read it (NIV, KJV), its context in Luke 6, and a plain reading.
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- 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 — Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. Read the article
- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 — Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price… Read the article
- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 — Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. Read the article
- 1 Samuel 1:19-20 — Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the Lord and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her. So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, \ Read the article
- 1 Samuel 4:4 — So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the Lord Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim. And Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. Read the article