but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
Parallel translations
- 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:
- BSB but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or 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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Quick answer
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.
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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 Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
- 1 Pet 2:22–24who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
- John 1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- Heb 9:12–14nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
- Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
- Exod 12:5Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
- John 1:36and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
- Col 1:14in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;
- Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
- Eph 1:7in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
- Isa 53:7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
- Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
- 1 Jn 2:2And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
- Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
- Rev 7:14I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
- 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
- Matt 26:28for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
- Acts 8:32–35Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
- Zech 13:7“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
- Rev 5:6I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
- Rev 14:1I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
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