Catholic Public Domain Version
"For you know that it was not with corruptible gold or silver that you were redeemed away from your useless behavior in the traditions of your fathers, "
— 1 Peter 1:18, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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;”
“knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; ”
“knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,”
“You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold,”
“Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:”
“Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,”
“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;”
but in accord with him who has called you: the Holy One. And in every behavior, you yourself must be holy,
for it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am Holy.”
And if you invoke as Father him who, without showing favoritism to persons, judges according to each one’s work, then act in fear during the time of your sojourning here.
For you know that it was not with corruptible gold or silver that you were redeemed away from your useless behavior in the traditions of your fathers,
but it was with the precious blood of Christ, an immaculate and undefiled lamb,
foreknown, certainly, before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in these latter times for your sake.
Through him, you have been faithful to God, who raised him up from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope would be in God.