18having known that, not with corruptible things — silver or gold — were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,


In Context

15 but according as He who did call you is holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,

16 because it hath been written, 'Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

17 and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,

18 having known that, not with corruptible things — silver or gold — were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted — Christ's —

20 foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

1 Peter 1:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:18Forasmuch 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;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:18For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:18Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:18knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:18knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:18knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:18Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain course of life received by tradition from your fathers;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:18knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:18For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;