Loading
Loading
0 Chapters0 Books0 People0 Places
Being bought back and set free — rescued from slavery to sin
lightbulbRe-DEEM — to deem valuable again. God buying back what sin stole
78 mentions across 33 books
The idea comes from the ancient slave market: someone pays the price to set a slave free. Jesus paid that price with His life. You were bought back from sin's ownership.
Redemption appears in the final summary as the theological culmination of everything the psalm has described — the forgiveness, healing, and crowning of verses 3–4 are all expressions of being bought back from the pit.
Give Thanks (The Chorus Drops)Psalms 107:1-3Redemption identifies who this psalm is addressed to — those God has already bought back and rescued, making thanksgiving not optional but the only fitting response.
Faithful and Just — Every Single TimePsalms 111:7-9Redemption appears in verse 9 as one of God's completed acts — not a promise still pending, but something He already sent to His people, sealed by the covenant that follows.
Blessed Is He Who ComesPsalms 118:25-29Redemption is the ultimate frame for the entire psalm — the chapter describes it as the soundtrack to God's rescue story, from personal deliverance to the cosmic reversal of the rejected stone becoming the cornerstone.
The Promise That Covers EveryonePsalms 130:7-8Redemption closes the psalm here as the ultimate resolution — God doesn't just hear the cry from the deep, He fully buys back and restores, with the text emphasizing abundance: more than enough redemption to cover everything.
The Exodus Was ElitePsalms 136:10-15Redemption is the theological category the exodus fits into — God paying a price (ten plagues, the death of Egypt's firstborn) to buy His people out of slavery and into freedom.
The Feast and the PromisePsalms 22:25-26Redemption here is specifically pictured as inclusive — not a private transaction but a community-wide restoration where the poor are fed and no one who seeks God is turned away from the table.
Idols Are Mid, God Is NotPsalms 31:6-8Redemption is illustrated here not just as rescue from enemies but as rescue into freedom — God moved David from confinement to open ground, which is the full picture of what being redeemed means.
Affliction Isn't the EndPsalms 34:19-22Redemption appears in the psalm's final flourish as God's definitive act toward His servants — the promise that He buys back and frees those who take refuge in Him, ensuring none are ultimately condemned.
My Only HopePsalms 39:7-8Redemption is what David specifically requests at his lowest point — having acknowledged life's emptiness, he asks God to rescue him from sin rather than from circumstances.
Death Is Their ShepherdPsalms 49:13-15Redemption is the concept at work in God's act of ransoming the soul from Sheol — the psalmist uses the language of buying someone back to describe what only God can do for the dead.
Redemption is on the table here in its most vivid Old Testament form — the scarlet-to-snow promise is God's invitation to full restoration after everything He just said, contingent only on willing obedience.
The Plot Twist — Egypt Turns to GodIsaiah 19:18-22Redemption appears here as the shocking reversal — God doesn't just judge Egypt, He rescues them, sending a Savior to deliver them from their oppressors just as He once delivered Israel.
Seventy Years of Silence ⏳Isaiah 23:15-18Redemption closes the chapter on a national scale — God doesn't merely destroy Tyre but repurposes its entire economic legacy, turning greed-funded wealth into provision for those who serve Him.
From Worm to WeaponIsaiah 41:14-16Redemption is illustrated concretely here — God as 'Redeemer' takes the weakest possible thing (a worm) and makes it powerful, showing that redemption isn't polishing something already good but transforming something seemingly worthless into something mighty.
Your Sins Are Gone Like Morning FogIsaiah 44:21-23Redemption is the word God uses to call Israel back — 'Return to me, for I have redeemed you' frames the invitation as already-accomplished, not conditional on their response.
Redemption is invoked here at the very start of its biblical arc — the promise to bless all nations through Abram is the first act of God's long plan to rescue humanity.
The Dark ProphecyGenesis 15:12-16Redemption is invoked here as God's pre-planned response to the coming slavery — the promise that his people will 'come out with great possessions' foreshadows the Exodus as the definitive redemption story of the Old Testament.
The Cave — A Dark EndingGenesis 19:30-38Redemption is the chapter's final theological note — even the darkest passage in Genesis points forward, as God's story refuses to end in the cave and instead threads through Moab's line to Ruth and beyond.
Judah's Sacrifice — The Breaking PointGenesis 44:27-34Redemption appears here in its most elemental form — Judah is literally acting as a redeemer, offering to pay with his own freedom to buy back his brother's, previewing the theological pattern that runs through all of Scripture.
Go Get FatherGenesis 45:9-15Redemption is embodied in Joseph's arc: the man sold into slavery now holds the power to save his family from famine — the one discarded becomes the only one capable of rescuing everyone.
Redemption is the arc that verse 9 looks back on — the entire fourteen-chapter journey of Israel's betrayal, judgment, and restoration that the closing challenge now asks every reader to understand and walk in.
The Plot Twist Nobody Saw ComingHosea 2:14-15Redemption is the word that captures what God is doing in this plot twist — not tolerating Israel back but actively romancing her, reclaiming what was lost and making it better.
The Price of RedemptionHosea 3:2-3Redemption reaches its clearest definition in this moment — Hosea paying the price to buy Gomer back from slavery is the concrete, costly act that gives the word its meaning in this chapter.
The Unanswered LoveHosea 7:13-16Redemption here is God's stated desire that Israel refused to receive — the line 'I would redeem them' reveals that rescue was fully available, but Israel's lies and empty rituals kept the door closed.
Redemption is conspicuously absent from Jehoram's story — the narrator flags upfront that this chapter offers no turnaround moment, no rescue arc, just uninterrupted moral collapse.
The King Who Just Quietly Locked InRedemption arcs are referenced here as a narrative pattern Jotham notably lacks — his story isn't a comeback story, which is itself the point: he never fell to begin with.
Redemption is the interpretive frame for Manasseh's full legacy — the question his story leaves open is whether his son Amon would follow the redemption arc or the villain arc.
Redemption is the theological capstone the narrator places on the Exodus — 430 years of waiting resolved in a single night, presented as the paradigm of how God buys back and liberates His people.
The Firstborn Belong to GodExodus 13:1-2Redemption is introduced here not as an abstract theological concept but as something God enacted on a family-by-family level — every firstborn son spared in Egypt represents a personal act of divine rescue.
The Ultimate Resume DropExodus 6:2-8Redemption appears here in its most literal Old Testament form — God promises to 'redeem' Israel with an outstretched arm, using the Hebrew term that means to buy back a slave.
Redemption is invoked here to describe the mechanism by which suffering becomes ministry — God doesn't erase pain but repurposes it, turning your hardest seasons into tools for helping others.
The Love of Christ Controls Us2 Corinthians 5:11-15Redemption appears here as the reframing of what Christ's love-driven death actually accomplishes — not restriction, but liberation into a life oriented around the One who died and rose.
Redemption is embodied in Solomon's birth and naming — God is not merely tolerating David's lineage after the sin but actively investing in its future, writing new purpose through the wreckage.
Mephibosheth Meets the King2 Samuel 9:5-8Redemption is illustrated in real time as David reverses Mephibosheth's entire situation — from hidden outcast to restored heir — prefiguring how God reclaims those written off by the world.
Redemption is cited here as the very reason Israel must protect the vulnerable — because God redeemed them from Egyptian slavery, their obligation to the powerless is rooted in their own rescue story.
Moses' Prayer: The Ultimate IntercessionDeuteronomy 9:25-29Redemption is the foundation of Moses's argument — God already bought Israel out of Egypt, and destroying them in the wilderness would contradict everything that redemptive act meant.
Redemption appears here as the framework for God's mass gathering — the return from exile is not just a homecoming but a rescue operation, God buying back what was taken from hands too strong to fight.
The Wildest Real Estate Deal EverJeremiah 32:6-15Redemption here refers specifically to the ancient Israelite legal practice of kinsman-redemption — the right and responsibility of a close relative to purchase family land to keep it within the clan, which Jeremiah invokes as his legal basis for buying Hanamel's field.
Redemption is illustrated here not as an abstract concept but as God literally reaching to the sea floor to rescue someone who ran from Him and had no way out.
God Sees. God Relents.Jonah 3:10Redemption is used here to frame the chapter's arc as a double narrative — Nineveh rescued from destruction and Jonah himself redeemed from his earlier failure, both restored through the same act of obedience.