1 Peter 1:18

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,

Cross References

Psalm 39:6

Surely man goes about as a shadow! Surely for naught are they in turmoil; man heaps up, and knows not who will gather!

Psalm 62:10

Put no confidence in extortion, set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Isaiah 44:22

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

Isaiah 52:3

For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited naught but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,

Jeremiah 44:17

But we will do everything that we have vowed, burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no evil.

Jeremiah 9:14

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

Ezekiel 20:18

“And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked.

Numbers 7:15

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

Mark 8:37

For what can a man give in return for his life?

Romans 1:21

for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.

1 Corinthians 3:20

and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

1 Corinthians 6:20

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

1 Corinthians 7:23

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

Galatians 1:4

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

Ephesians 4:17

Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

Hebrews 9:12

he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold which though perishable is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:3

Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

1 John 3:5

You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.