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

Yet these cannot redeem a person
or pay his ransom to God—

for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

Corruptible

so that the genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Vain

“Certainly, man walks about like a mere shadow.
Indeed, they frantically rush around in vain,
gathering possessions
without knowing who will get them.

Place no trust in oppression,
or false hope in robbery.
If wealth increases,
pay no attention to it.

“At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, ‘A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to My dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.

and again, The Lord knows that the reasonings

of the wise are meaningless.

Received

For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the pagans choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed after the Baals as their fathers taught them.”

Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
my refuge in a time of distress,
the nations will come to You
from the ends of the earth, and they will say,
“Our fathers inherited only lies,
worthless idols of no benefit at all.”

Instead, we will do everything we said we would: burn incense to the queen of heaven and offer drink offerings to her just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in Judah’s cities and in Jerusalem’s streets. Then we had enough food and good things and saw no disaster,

“Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah
for three crimes, even four,
because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord

and have not kept His statutes.
The lies that their ancestors followed
have led them astray.

Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat!”

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a united cry went up from all of them for about two hours: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

General references

Everyone who touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

He collected the money from the firstborn Israelites: 1,365 shekels measured by the standard sanctuary shekel.

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

For this is what the Lord says:
“You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without silver.”

What can a man give in exchange for his life?

But we were hoping that He was the One who was about to redeem Israel. Besides all this, it’s the third day since these things happened.