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1 Peter 1:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life  inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

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for you were bought  at a price. So glorify God with your body.


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


He gave himself for us  to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people for his own possession,  eager to do good works.


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


Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.


For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.


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


so that the proven character of your faith   #– #more valuable than gold which, though perishable, is refined by fire   #– #may result  in praise, glory, and honour  at the revelation of Jesus Christ.


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.


‘ “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.


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


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 ancestors inherited only lies, worthless idols  of no benefit at all.’


Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts  and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.’


‘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;


and again, The Lord knows that the reasonings   of the wise are futile.   ,


I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.


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


he entered the most holy place once for all time, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.


You know that he was revealed so that he might take away sins,  , and there is no sin in him.


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


What can anyone give in exchange for his life?





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