1 Peter 1:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

Ye

Psalm 49:7

1 Corinthians 6:20

1 Corinthians 7:23

Corruptible

1 Peter 1:7

Vain

1 Corinthians 3:20

Received

General references

Bible References

Ye

A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;

Corruptible

that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Vain

Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: 'A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)

because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

and again, 'The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

Received

for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them,

O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

for we certainly do everything that hath gone out of our mouth, to make perfume to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our heads, in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and -- we are satisfied with bread, and we are well, and evil we have not seen.

And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, And for four, I do not reserve it, Because of their loathing the law of Jehovah, And His statutes they have not kept, And their lies do cause them to err, After which their fathers did walk,

Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

'Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.'

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

and having known that he is a Jew, one voice came out of all, for about two hours, crying, 'Great is the Artemis of the Ephesians!'

who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

General references

and any one who is coming against them is unclean, and hath washed his garments, and hath bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.

from the first-born of the sons of Israel he hath taken the money, a thousand and three hundred and sixty and five -- by the shekel of the sanctuary;

one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering;

For thus said Jehovah: 'For nought ye have been sold, And not by money are ye redeemed.'

Or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

and we were hoping that he it is who is about to redeem Israel, and also with all these things, this third day is passing to-day, since these things happened.