1 Peter 1:18

Tree of Life Version

You know that you were redeemed from the futile way of life handed down from your ancestors—not with perishable things such as silver or gold,

Cross References

Psalm 39:6

Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah

Psalm 62:10

Sons of Adam are a vapor, sons of man are an illusion. In balanced scales they go up— altogether they are less than a breath.

Isaiah 44:22

I have blotted out your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”

Isaiah 52:3

For thus says Adonai: “You were sold for nothing. So you will be redeemed without silver.”

Jeremiah 16:19

Adonai, my strength, my stronghold, my refuge in the day of affliction, to You will the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, futility and useless things.”

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the barren hills in the wilderness blows toward My people, but not to winnow or to sift—

Jeremiah 44:17

Instead we will definitely do every word as went out of our mouth—burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we did, 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, were well off, and saw no calamity.

Jeremiah 9:14

Therefore, thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel, “look, I will make this people eat wormwood and drink poisoned water.

Ezekiel 20:18

“I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, do not keep their ordinances, do not defile yourselves with their idols.

Amos 2:4

Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Judah even for four, I will not relent. For they despise Adonai’s Torah and have not kept His statutes. Their lies have misled them— those their fathers walked after.

Numbers 7:15

one young bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old as a burnt offering,

Mark 8:37

For what could a man give in exchange for his soul?

Romans 1:21

for even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. Instead, their thinking became futile, and their senseless hearts were made dark.

1 Corinthians 3:20

And again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are useless.”

1 Corinthians 6:20

For you were bought with a price. Therefore 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 rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Ephesians 4:17

So I tell you this, indeed I insist on it in the Lord—walk no longer as the pagans do, stumbling around in the futility of their thinking.

Titus 2:14

He gave Himself for us so that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and so that He might purify for Himself a chosen people, zealous for good deeds.

Hebrews 9:12

He entered into the Holies once for all—not by the blood of goats and calves but by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.

1 Peter 1:7

These trials are so that the true metal of your faith (far more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire) may come to light in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Messiah Yeshua.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to carry out the desire of the pagans—living in indecency, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, wild parties, and lawless idolatries.

1 John 3:5

You know that Yeshua appeared in order to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.