18Forasmuch 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;
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: …
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-23)Here the apostle begins his exhortations to those whose glorious state he had before described, thereby instructing us that Christianity is a doctrine according to godliness, designed to make us not only wiser, but better. I. He exhorts them to sobriety and holiness. 1. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind , etc., 1 Pet. 1:13. As if he had said, “ Wherefore , since you are so honoured and dist…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.