Verse 19. The precious blood of Christ] τιμιω αιματι. The valuable blood; how valuable neither is nor could be stated.
As of a lamb] Such as was required for a sin-offering to God; and THE Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.
Without blemish] In himself, and without spot from the world; being perfectly pure in his soul, and righteous in his life.
1 PETER 1:19-20 Cristou/( proegnwsme,nou Between verses 1 Peter 1:19 and 1 Peter 1:20 several Latin wit...
BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST - On the use of the word blood, and the reason why the efficacy of the atonement is said to be in the blood, see the notes at Romans 3:25. The word “precious” (τι...
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...
LAMB. See John 1:29. WITHOUT BLEMISH. Greek. _amomos._ See Ephesians 1:4 (without blame). Compare Exodus 12:5. WITHOUT SPOT. See...
_but with the precious blood of Christ_ The order of the Greek, and the absence of the article before "blood," somewhat modify the meaning. Better, WITH PRECIOUS BLOOD, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AN...
ἈΜΝΟΥ͂. Cf. John 1:29. The reference is most probably to the passover lamb, which, though not actually the ransom paid for deliverance from Egypt, was closely connected with that deliverance and did r...
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...
ΤΊΜΙΟΣ (G5093) ценный, драгоценный, ΆΜΝΌΣ (G286) ягненок, ΆΜΩΜΟΣ (G299) безупречный. ΆΣΠΙΛΟΣ (G784) незапятнанный, чистый. Возможно, Петр имеет в виду пасхального агнца (Hort). Жертвенное животное д...
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...
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: PRECIOUS - of inestimable value. Greek order, 'With precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish (in itself) an...
VERSE 19 BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST. Here the manner of the redemption is stated affirmatively. Negatively, not with gold or silver; affimatively, with the precious blood of Christ. Under t...
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...
1:19 spot, (l-13) Or 'by precious blood, as of Christ, a lamb, c.' or 'by [the] precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb, &c.'...
THANKWORTHY] RV 'acceptable'; RM 'Gr. grace.' The Gk. for 'grace' and 'thankfulness' is the same. As joy in suffering partakes of the divine glory (cp. 1 Peter 1:8), so thankfulness and cheerfulness r...
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...
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...
WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST. — “Precious” means, not “much prized by us,” but _costly,_ precious in itself; opposed to the perishableness of gold and silver. Notice that it is not “Jesus,” but “...
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...
The blood of Christ, the true paschal lamb, was the (means or) agent of your redemption. The type contemplated is composite; the _lamb_ is the _yearling sheep_ (שה πρόβατον, but Targum-Onkelos has אמר...
_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...
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...
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...
19_As of a lamb _He means by this similitude, that we have in Christ whatever had been shadowed forth by the ancient sacrifices, though he especially alludes to the Paschal lamb. But let us hence lear...
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...
BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST,.... Christ was prophesied of as a Redeemer under the Old Testament, Isaiah 59:20 and the Jews frequently ascribe redemption to the word of the Lord God f; and wh...
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Ver. 19. _Without blemish_] Of original pollution. _ And without spot_] Of actual sin: or thus, without blemish,...
_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...
BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT;...
The reason for the holiness of Christians:...
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 1:19 ‘but with precious blood, as of. lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ'._ ‘BUT WITH PRECIOUS BLOOD' -‘Precious'-‘of great worth or value' (Arndt p. 818) _‘AS OF. LAMB UNBL...
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...
PRECIOUS; because the blood not only of an innocent person, but of the Son of God, ACTS 20:28. AS OF A LAMB; i.e. who was a Lamb. _A lamb; the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world, _ 1 T...
Tertullian On Modesty And, for fear you should fly to that statement for a licence to fornication, on the ground that you will be sinning against a thing which is yours, not the Lord's, he takes you...
1 Peter 1:19 but G235 precious G5093 blood G129 Christ G5547 as G5613 lamb G286 blemish G299 and G2532 spot...
‘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...
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...
1 Peter 1:19. BUT WITH PRECIOUS BLOOD, AS OF A LAMB BLAMELESS AND SPOTLESS, TO WIT CHRIST'S. The construction here is doubtful and difficult, owing to the term ‘Christ's' being thrown to the end. The...
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...
BUT WITH PRECIOUS BLOOD (αλλα τιμιω αιματ). Instrumental case of αιμα after ελυτρωθητε (repeated from verse 1 Peter 1:18). Peter here applies the old adjective τιμιος (from τιμη, of Christ in 1 Pete...
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 1:17. _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, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
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...
BY THE COSTLY SACRIFICE OF CHRIST. BLOOD = BLOODY DEATH= COSTLY SACRIFICE. "YOU see the value which God placed on you, by the costly sacrifice which He paid to buy you for Himself!!!" LIKE A LAMB. The...
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
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
_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 5:7; 1 Corinthians 5:8; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:2; 1 P
But with the precious blood of Christ. The word Cristou, of Christ, stands at the end of the sentence, and is emphatic. Render, as Rev., with precious blood as of a lamb, etc., even the blood of Chris...
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...
Without blemish — In himself. Without spot — From the world....