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Definition of Redeem
Redeem

To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.

To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.

To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.

To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.

Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.

To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.

To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.

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Redeem Quotations

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand Russell

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
Orson Pratt

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Adlai E. Stevenson

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
Robert Dale Owen

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
E. Stanley Jones

Redeem Translations

redeem in Dutch is vrijkopen, loskopen, afkopen
redeem in French is relayer, rachetons, rachetent, racheter, rachetez
redeem in Italian is rilevare
redeem in Spanish is redimir, rescatar

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