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 man redeeming shall not redeem the brother, he shall not give to God his ransom:

For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.

Ye were bought for a price; be ye not servants of men.

Corruptible

That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Vain

Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.

Ye shall not trust in oppression, ye shall not become vain in plunder: if wealth shall increase ye shall not set the heart

In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A clear wind of the naked hills in the desert the way of the daughter of my people, not for winnowing, and not for separating.

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.

Received

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

And they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baalims which their fathers taught them.

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in days of straits, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers inherited falsehood, vanity, and no receiving profit in them.

But doing, we will do all the word which went forth from our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, to pour out libations to her, as we did, we and our fathers, our kings and our chiefs in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we shall be filled with bread, and we shall be well, and see not evil.

And saying to their sons in the desert Ye shall not go in the laws of your fathers, and their judgments ye shall not watch, and with their blocks ye shall not be defiled.:

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn it back from him, for their rejecting the instructions of Jehovah, and they watched not his laws, and their lies caused them to err which their fathers went after them.

Ye shall not be as your fathers which the former prophets called to them, saying, Thus, said Jehovah of armies: Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil doings: and they heard not, and they attended not to me, says Jehovah.

Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, also you.

And having known that he is a Jew, there was one voice from all crying for about two hours, Great the Diana of the Ephesians.

Having given himself for our sins, that he might take us away out of this present evil time, according to the will of God and our Father:

General references

And every one touching upon them shall be unclean, and he washed his garments, and washed in water, and was unclean till the evening.

From the first-born of the sons of Israel he took the silver; five and sixty and three hundred and a thousand, according to the holy shekel.

One bullock, son of a cow, one ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a burnt-offering.

For thus said Jehovah, Ye sold yourselves gratuitously, and ye shall not be redeemed with silver.

Or what shall a man give for the exchange of his soul?

And we hoped that this is he about to redeem Israel: but also with all these things, to day it brings the third day from which these things were.