◄ Psalm 49:7 {48:8} ►
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Good News Translation
We can never redeem ourselves; we cannot pay God the price for our lives,

New Revised Standard Version
Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life, there is no price one can give to God for it.

Contemporary English Version
You cannot buy back your life or pay off God!

New American Bible
No man can ransom even a brother, or pay to God his own ransom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

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Context
The Evanescence of Wealth
…6They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches, 7No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,8Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,…
Cross References
Matthew 25:8
And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out.

Matthew 25:9
The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and for you, go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves.

Job 33:24
He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.

Job 36:18
Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.

Job 36:19
Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.

Proverbs 10:2
The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 8:8
It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.

Psalm 49:6
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