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1 Peter 1:18
forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers,
forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers,
Verse 18. _YE WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS_] To _redeem_, λυτροω, signifies to procure life for a captive or liberty for a slave by _paying a price_, and the _precious blood of Christ_ is...
FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW - This is an argument for a holy life, derived from the fact that they were redeemed, and from the manner in which their redemption had been effected. There is no more effectual w...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE SUFFERING OF BELIEVERS AND EXHORTATIONS TO HOLY LIVING CHAPTER 1:1-21 _ 1. The introduction and doxology (1 Peter 1:1)_ 2. Suffering and the coming glory (1 Peter...
Here the practical aim of the epistle becomes at the earliest possible moment clearly manifest. The writer finds in the central reality of the Christian faith the example, sacrifice, and resurrection...
FORASMUCH, &C. = Knowing. App-132. REDEEMED. See Titus 2:14. WITH. by. No preposition. CORRUPTIBLE. See Romans 1:23. _ RECEIVED_, &C. = handed down from your fathers. Greek. _patroparadotos._ Only...
_as ye know that ye were not redeemed_ The idea of a ransom as a price paid for liberation from captivity or death, suggests the contrast between the silver and gold which were paid commonly for human...
INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOUNDED UPON THE BENEDICTION 1 Peter 1:13 to 1 Peter 2:10 13–25. 13 The new life of hope, faith and privilege to which you have been begotten involves corresponding responsi...
ΕἸΔΌΤΕΣ. The thought of what their deliverance has cost increases the responsibility of Christians to “walk worthily.” ἘΛΥΤΡΏΘΗΤΕ, _ye were ransomed_. The word is used of deliverance from slavery or f...
ΕΊΔΌΤΕΣ _perf. act. part. от_ ΟΊΔΑ (G3617) знать. Def. perf. со значением _praes._ Part, может быть причинным. Христианское поклонение основано на знании об искуплении, здесь перечислены четыре аспект...
DISCOURSE: 2388 REDEMPTION FROM A VAIN CONVERSATION 1 Peter 1:18. _Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition fro...
_4._ The Christian's Ransom 1:18-21 1 Peter 1:18-19 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; but...
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; Another motive to reverential fear ...
VERSE 18 FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW THAT YE WERE NOT REDEEMED. This is as much as to say that the parties here addressed did know, for the sense is, since ye know how they were redeemed. The apostle states...
1 Note the contrast between Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus. Peter proceeds on the ground of His present rejection on earth, Paul on His exaltation in heaven. 1...
GREETING IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRINITY. ENCOURAGEMENT TO HOPE IN FAITH AND OBEDIENCE 1, 2. To the strangers scattered throughout.. elect] RV 'to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in,' e...
Cp. 1 Peter 1:15. VAIN] i.e. empty, purposeless: cp. 1 Peter 4:2; Ephesians 4:17. _Received_ BY TRADITION] Heathen as well as Jews would have many traditions to break with when they became 'obedient':...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ INTRODUCTION THE WRITER Peter wrote this letter. He was one of the 12 *apostles. His name was Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (John 1:42). ‘Pe...
Peter then compares their past and present lives. In the past, they did not know how to live for God (see verse 14). People taught them wrong things. Nobody in their society knew the right way to live...
(13-25) GENERAL APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING. — This salvation being so magnificent, the Asiatic Hebrews must cling to it tenaciously, in holiness, in reverence caused by consideration of the cost of...
FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW. — This correctly paraphrases the simple original _knowing._ Security, which is the opposite of the fear of the Father, is incompatible with knowing by whose and what anguish alon...
CHAPTER 4 THE CHRISTIAN'S IDEAL, AND THE STEPS THEREUNTO 1 Peter 1:13 THE Apostle, who has set forth the character of the Christian's election, who has given to the converts large assurance for the...
_Practical admonitions_. In this section St. Peter is engrossed with the conception of the Church as the new Israel which has been delivered from idolatry the spiritual Egypt by a _far more excellent...
Amplification of Isaiah 52:3 f., Δωρεὰν ἐπράθητε καὶ οὐ μετὰ ἀργυρίου λυτρωθήσεσθε (_cf._ Isaiah 45:13 … εἰς Αἴγυπτον κατέβη ὁ λαός μου τὸ πρότερον παροικῆσαι ἐκεῖ. The deliverance from Babylon corres...
REDEEMED AND PURIFIED 1 Peter 1:13 The appeal for a holy life is enforced by considering the great cost of our redemption and the great hope which is opened before us. Ours must be the girded loins,...
Like the letter of James, the purpose of this was to establish those who were passing through a period of suffering and testing. In his introduction the apostle used the name Jesus had given him, "Pet...
THE PRICELESS NATURE OF CHRIST'S BLOOD Further, Christians can approach this loving Father because they know He brought them back from sin with the blood of His own Son. Christians were not bought bac...
(11) Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers; (11) An exhortation, in which...
From your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers. St. Peter teacheth what St. Paul repeats in many places, that it was in vain for them to hope to be saved by the ceremonies and precepts o...
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: (18) Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed w...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
18_Forasmuch as ye know, _or, _knowing_. Here is another reason, drawn from the price of our redemption, which ought always to be remembered when our salvation is spoken of. For to him who repudiates...
The First Epistle of Peter is addressed to believers among the dispersed of Israel found in those provinces of Asia Minor Which are named in the first Verse; the Second Epistle declares itself to be a...
FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW,.... From the Scriptures of truth, by the testimony of the Spirit, by his work upon the soul, and by the application of the benefits of redemption, such as justification, pardon,...
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, _as_ silver and gold, from your vain conversation _received_ by tradition from your fathers; Ver. 18. _Ye were not redeemed wit...
_Forasmuch as ye know_, &c. That is, be holy in your whole behaviour, because ye know what an immense price your redemption cost; _that you were not redeemed with corruptible things_ Such as all visib...
VAIN CONVERSATION; vain life; their vain reliance on the ceremonies of the law and the traditions of the father. It may be the duty of persons to change their religion although it has come down to the...
Peter writes with apostolic authority and though it is directly to the dispersed Jewish Christians (strangers both because Jews among Gentiles, and because Christians separated from Jewish relatives),...
_1 Peter 1:18 ‘knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,'_ ‘KNOWING' -‘For you know' (TCNT). The conne...
17-25 Holy confidence in God as a Father, and awful fear of him as a Judge, agree together; and to regard God always as a Judge, makes him dear to us as a Father. If believers do evil, God will visit...
FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW; considering that ye were, &c. THAT YE WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS: see TITUS 2:14. This implies them to have been in a servile condition, and in bondage to their ow...
1 Peter 1:18 knowing G1492 (G5761) that G3754 were G3084 not G3756 redeemed G3084 (G5681) things G5349 silver...
RECOGNISING WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR THEM THEY SHOULD LIVE THEIR LIVES WITH GREATEST CARE (1 PETER 1:17). The emphasis on obedience continues, and now it is linked with God's remedy through the blood of...
‘Knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, even...
The exhortation to a walk in holiness is followed immediately by an exhortation to a walk in godly fear. The way in which this section is connected with the preceding shows that the latter charge is g...
1 Peter 1:18. KNOWING THAT NOT WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, SILVER OR GOLD, WERE YE REDEEMED. The injunction to a walk in godly fear, which is sustained by motives of this strength and variety, was implic...
KNOWING (ειδοτες). Second perfect active participle of οιδα, causal participle. The appeal is to an elementary Christian belief (Hort), the holiness and justice of God with the added thought of the...
REDEEMED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:24). _...
1 Peter 1:17 Fear of Judgment to Come and of Redemption Accomplished. Note: I. The sphere and operation of Christian fear. There are some to whom the importance attached to fear in this place and el...
1 Peter 1:18 The Ransom. Note: I. The foreordination of the sacrifice. II. The preciousness of the sacrifice. III. The efficiency of the sacrifice in accomplishing its twofold object (1) in satisf...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:17. _And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:_ Not in unbelieving fear, but in that...
1 Peter 1:13. _Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;_ This is Peter's practical appli...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,_ It must have been very pleasant to his heart to write those words, not «Peter, who denied his Master,» not Peter, «full of imperfections and infirmit...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ._ These are his credentials from him who is Prince of the kings of the earth. _To the strangers scattered_ abroad, of whose tragic dispersion we have spo...
WHAT WAS PAID. "It cost something to _buy you for God!_ And you know it was not material things like silver or gold." WORTHLESS MANNER OF LIFE. See note on 1 Thessalonians 1:9....
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:18 YOU WERE RANSOMED FROM THE FUTILE WAYS INHERITED FROM YOUR FOREFATHERS. “Ransom” recalls Israel’s deliverance from Egypt (Deuteron
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:13 The inheritance promised to followers of Christ should motivate them to set their hope entirely on their future reward (vv. 1 Peter 1:13) and to live in fear of the God wh
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 1:17. THE FATHER.—Better, “a Father.” God apprehended as Father through our apprehension of the Sonship of Christ. _Plumptre_ reminds us that “the sequel shows...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 1:1 PETER. It is the Greek form of the name, which the Lord Jesus himself had given to the great apostle; first, by anticipation, in the spirit of prophecy (John 1:42); and again...
Tonight let's turn to First Peter chapter one. Of the many disciples that were following Jesus, He chose twelve to be apostles. One of the twelve that was chosen as an apostle was Simon Peter. Simon P...
1 Corinthians 3:20; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Corinthians 7:23; 1 Peter 1:7;...
Ye were redeemed [ε λ υ τ ρ ω θ η τ ε]. The verb occurs only in two other passages, Luke 24:21; Titus 2:14. It carries the idea of a ransom - price (lutron, from luw, to loose). With silver or gold [α...
THE BOOK OF BOOKS 1 Peter 1:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is said on one occasion, when Sir Walter Scott was sick, he called his son requesting him to bring him THE book. His son said, "Your library is...
Your vain conversation — Your foolish, sinful way of life....
Still our apostle is pressing Christians to the love and practice of holiness, and. reverential fear of God, by fresh arguments and motives, particularly from their redemption; saying, that they could...