¹⁸ You know that you were redeemed from the futile way of life handed down from your ancestors—not with perishable things such as silver or gold, ¹⁹ but with precious blood like that of a lamb without defect or spot, the blood of Messiah. ²⁰ He was chosen before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. ²¹ Through Him you are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your trust and hope are in God.

²⁴ He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we, removed from sins, might live for righteousness. “By His wounds you were healed.”^[a]