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But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1 Peter 1:19 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ;
  • BSB but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or 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 one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
  • 1 Pet 2:22–24Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
  • John 1:29The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
  • Heb 9:12–14Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
  • Rev 5:9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
  • Exod 12:5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
  • John 1:36And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
  • Col 1:14In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
  • Rev 1:5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
  • Eph 1:7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
  • Isa 53:7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
  • Matt 20:28Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  • 1 Jn 2:2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
  • Acts 20:28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
  • Rev 7:14And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
  • 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
  • Matt 26:28For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
  • Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
  • 1 Cor 5:7–8Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
  • Acts 8:32–35The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
  • Zech 13:7Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
  • Rev 5:6And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
  • Rev 14:1And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in 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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