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but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
1 Peter 1:19 · Berean Standard Bible
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  • WEB but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ;
  • KJV But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
  • NKJV but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
  • NASB but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
  • NLT It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.

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Believers were redeemed by the precious blood of Christ, the spotless Lamb. Our salvation was purchased at the infinite cost of Jesus' sacrificial death.

Overview

The redemption price is 'the precious blood of Christ,' described as a lamb 'without blemish or spot,' echoing the Passover lamb and the sacrificial system. Jesus is the perfect, sinless sacrifice whose death fulfills and surpasses those types. This verse stands at the heart of the gospel: salvation is accomplished not by human effort or wealth but by Christ's atoning blood.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
  • 1 Pet 2:22–24“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”
  • John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
  • Heb 9:12–14He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
  • Rev 5:9And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
  • Exod 12:5Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
  • John 1:36When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
  • Col 1:14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
  • Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
  • Eph 1:7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
  • Isa 53:7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
  • Matt 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
  • 1 Jn 2:2He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
  • Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
  • Rev 7:14“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
  • 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
  • Matt 26:28This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
  • Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
  • 1 Cor 5:7–8Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
  • Acts 8:32–35The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
  • Zech 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
  • Rev 5:6Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
  • Rev 14:1Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.

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Christ at the center

The lamb without blemish foreknown before the world, who bore our sins in his body on the tree, by whose wounds we are healed — the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls.

How 1 Peter 1:19 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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