THEOSISProverbs 21:18Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.
כֹּ֣פֶר לַצַּדִּ֣יק רָשָׁ֑ע וְתַ֖חַת יְשָׁרִ֣ים בּוֹגֵֽד׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 11:8The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.
- Isa 43:3For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I have given Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for thee.
- Isa 43:4Since thou becamest honourable in my eyes, thou art glorious: I have loved thee, and I will give men for thee, and people for thy life.
- Isa 53:4Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted.
- Isa 53:5But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.
- 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,
- Isa 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
- Isa 55:9For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.