New Revised Standard Version
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.

Contemporary English Version
God's people will escape, but all who are wicked will pay the price.

New American Bible
The wicked serve as ransom for the just, and the faithless for the upright.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.

The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.

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Proverbs 11:8 The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his friend: but the just shall be delivered by knowledge.

Isaiah 43:3,4 For 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. . . .

Isaiah 53:4,5 Surely 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. . . .

Isaiah 55:8,9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord. . . .

1 Peter 3:18 Because 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,