1 Peter 1:19

Contextual Overview

¹³Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. ¹³ Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. ¹³ Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³Get your minds wrapped around being a servant because that's what you've been called to be. Be self-controlled and ride with hope in the grace that is yours when Jesus comes riding back to get us. ¹³ So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; ¹³ Wherefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, [be] sober [and] hope with perfect stedfastness in the grace [which will be] brought to you at [the] revelation of Jesus Christ; ¹³ Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ -- ¹³ Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be watchful and hope perfectly for the grace that is brought you by the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ Therefore gird up your minds and fix your hopes calmly and unfalteringly upon the boon that is soon to be yours, at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ. ¹³ Wherefore gird vp the loynes of your minde, bee sober, and hope to the end, for the grace that is to bee brought vnto you at the reuelation of Iesus Christ:

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with: 1 Peter 2:22-24, 1 Peter 3:18, Daniel 9:24, Zechariah 13:7, Matthew 20:28, Matthew 26:28, Acts 20:28, Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:14, Hebrews 9:12-14, 1 John 1:7, 1 John 2:2, Revelation 1:5, Revelation 5:9

as: Exodus 12:5, Isaiah 53:7, John 1:29, John 1:36, Acts 8:32-35, 1 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 5:8, Revelation 5:6, Revelation 7:14, Revelation 14:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:4 - the firstlings Genesis 22:8 - General Genesis 22:13 - in the Exodus 24:6 - the blood he Exodus 29:1 - without Exodus 29:38 - two lambs Exodus 30:12 - a ransom Exodus 37:4 - with gold Leviticus 1:3 - a male Leviticus 1:17 - shall not Leviticus 4:35 - and the priest shall make Leviticus 12:6 - a lamb Leviticus 14:10 - he lambs Leviticus 15:27 - General Leviticus 22:19 - General Leviticus 23:12 - General Numbers 3:46 - the two hundred Numbers 6:14 - one ewe Numbers 7:15 - General Numbers 7:39 - General Numbers 19:2 - no blemish Numbers 28:3 - two lambs Numbers 28:19 - they shall Deuteronomy 16:6 - at even Deuteronomy 17:1 - General 2 Samuel 21:4 - We will 1 Kings 20:39 - or else Job 33:24 - I Psalms 19:14 - redeemer Psalms 26:11 - redeem Psalms 31:5 - thou Psalms 34:22 - redeemeth Psalms 107:2 - Let the Proverbs 13:8 - ransom Isaiah 1:27 - redeemed Isaiah 29:22 - who redeemed Isaiah 44:22 - return Isaiah 45:13 - let go Isaiah 62:12 - The redeemed Ezekiel 43:22 - a kid Ezekiel 45:18 - without blemish Ezekiel 46:13 - Thou shalt daily Hosea 7:13 - though Zechariah 13:1 - a fountain Matthew 25:34 - from Matthew 27:4 - the innocent Mark 8:37 - General Mark 10:45 - and to Mark 15:14 - Why Luke 23:4 - I find Luke 23:22 - Why Luke 23:41 - but Luke 24:21 - General John 14:30 - and John 18:38 - I find John 19:4 - that ye Romans 3:24 - through Romans 4:25 - Who was 1 Corinthians 1:30 - redemption 1 Corinthians 7:23 - are Ephesians 2:13 - are Ephesians 5:27 - not 1 Timothy 2:6 - gave 1 Timothy 6:14 - without Hebrews 7:26 - holy Hebrews 9:14 - the blood Hebrews 9:23 - the heavenly 1 Peter 2:4 - precious Revelation 13:8 - from

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 which the apostle here attributes to the blood of Christ; whose blood is the same with ours, only not tainted with sin; the blood of an innocent person, and of one who is God, as well as man, and was freely shed in the room and stead of his people, and so a sufficient price for their redemption: and it may truly be said to be "precious": as it is to God, to whom it is a sweet smelling sacrifice, and with which he is well pleased; not that he takes delight in the mere effusion of his blood, but as this is the ransom price, and the atonement of his chosen ones; and so it is to all them that believe, since by it they are justified; through it they have the forgiveness of their sins; their peace and reconciliation with God is made by it; and by it they are sanctified, and have boldness to enter into the holiest of all: and this blood of Christ, by which they are redeemed, is

as of a lamb without spot and blemish; Christ is comparable to any lamb, for the innocence of his nature, the meekness of his disposition and deportment, and for his patience under sufferings and in death; and to the lambs of the daily sacrifice, which were typical of the continual and constant virtue and efficacy of his sacrifice to take away sin; and particularly to the paschal lamb, he being the true passover sacrificed for us; and which, as also the lambs of the daily sacrifice, and all others, were to be without spot and blemish: and in which they prefigured Christ, who is without the stain of original, and the spot and blemish of actual sin; and so was a very fit person to be a sacrifice for sin, and a Redeemer of his people. The Jews have a notion, that the redemption of the Israelites out of Egypt, when a lamb without blemish was taken, and sacrificed and eaten, had a respect to the future redemption by the Messiah; and which, they say g, was to be in the same time of the year; that as they were redeemed in Nisan, the month in which the passover was kept, so they were to be redeemed in the same month: and indeed at that time, and in that month, was redemption obtained by the blood of Christ. Of the former, the Targumist in Hosea 3:2 says,

"I have redeemed them by my word, on the fifteenth day of the month Nisan, and have given silver shekels, the atonement of their souls.''

It is observable that the Hebrew word דם signifies both "blood" and "money", or price; whether some reference may not be had to this here, since both are included here, may be considered.

f Targum in Hos. i. 7. & iii. 2. & in Joel ii. 17. g Zohar in Numb. fol. 102. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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” (τίμιος timios) is a word which would be applied to that which is worth much; which is costly. Compare for the use of the noun (τιμή timē) in this sense, Matthew 27:6, “The price of blood;” Acts 4:34; Acts 5:2-3; Acts 7:16. See also for the use of the adjective, (τίμιος timios,) Revelation 17:4, “gold and precious stones” Revelation 18:12, “vessels of most precious wood.” Revelation 21:11, “a stone most precious.” The meaning here is, that the blood of Christ had a value above silver and gold; it was worth more, to wit:

(1)In itself - being a more valuable thing - and,

(2)In effecting our redemption. It accomplished what silver and gold could not do. The universe had nothing more valuable to offer, of which we can conceive, than the blood of the Son of God.

As of a lamb - That is, of Christ regarded as a lamb offered for sacrifice. See the notes at John 1:29.

Without blemish and without spot - Such a lamb only was allowed to be offered in sacrifice, Leviticus 22:20-24; Malachi 1:8. This was required:

(1)Because it was proper that man should offer that which was regarded as perfect in its kind; and,

(2)Because only that would be a proper symbol of the great sacrifice which was to be made by the Son of God. The idea was thus kept up from age to age that he, of whom all these victims were the emblems, would be perfectly pure.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.