1 Peter 1:18

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing[2] they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

Psalm 62:10

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

Isaiah 44:22

I have blotted out 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 you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing 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, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.

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 keep their rules, 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, those after which their fathers walked.

Numbers 7:15

one bull from the herd, 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 foolish hearts were darkened.

1 Corinthians 3:20

and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."

1 Corinthians 6:20

for 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 say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Hebrews 9:12

he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the tested genuineness of your faith -- more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire -- may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:3

The time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

1 John 3:5

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