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Compensation Exodus 21:30

If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.

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Compensation Exodus 22:1

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.

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Compensation Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

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Compensation 2 Timothy 3:17

so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

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Compensation Philippians 2:3, 4

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves. / Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

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Compensation 1 Corinthians 9:24

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.

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Damages and Compensation: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 21:18, 19, 22, 28–34

If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed, / then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed. / If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.

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Damages and Compensation: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 6:1–5

And the LORD said to Moses, / “If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor / or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit—

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Damages and Compensation: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 22:13–19, 28, 29

Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her, / and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.” / Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate

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Integrity: Nehemiah, Reforming the Civil Service, and Receiving No Compensation for his own Services Nehemiah 5:14–19

Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor. / The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God. / Instead, I devoted myself to the construction of the wall, and all my servants were gathered there for the work; we did not acquire any land.

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Rulers: Righteous: Samuel, in not Receiving Compensation for Judgment 1 Samuel 12:3, 4

Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.” / “You have not wronged us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”

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Self-Denial: Moses, in Taking No Compensation from the Israelites for his Services Numbers 16:15

Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”

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Vineyards: Laws Respecting: Compensation in Kind to be Made for Injury Done To Exodus 22:5

If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.

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Vows: Might be Redeemed by Paying a Suitable Compensation Leviticus 27:1–8, 11–23

Then the LORD said to Moses, / “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons, / if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.

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