Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.
Cross References
Job 33:24to be gracious to him and say, 'Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,'
Job 36:19Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
Psalm 49:7No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
Jonah 4:4But the LORD replied, "Have you any right to be angry?"
Jonah 4:9Then God asked Jonah, "Have you any right to be angry about the plant?" "I do," he replied. "I am angry enough to die!"
Treasury of Scripture
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
Because
Psalm 2:5,12
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure…
Psalm 110:5
The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
his
Psalm 39:10
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Isaiah 14:6
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Ezekiel 24:16
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
then
Job 33:24
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Psalm 49:7,8
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: …
1 Timothy 2:6
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
deliver thee.
