World English Bible
1 Peter 1:18
“knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,”
Verse in context — 1 Peter 1
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because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy.
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If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:
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knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
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but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;
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who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,