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1 Peter 1:19

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

KJV

ἀλλὰ τιμίῳ αἵματι ὡς ἀμνοῦ ἀμώμου καὶ ἀσπίλου Χριστοῦ,

Greek NT

sed pretioso sanguine quasi agni immaculati Christi, et incontaminati :

Vulgate

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, even the blood of Christ:

ASV

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
αἷμα
aima
noun · 97×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
τίμιος
timios
adjective · 13×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἀμνός
amnos
noun · 4×
ἄμωμος
amomos
noun · 9×
ἄσπιλος
aspilos
adjective · 4×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×

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And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. …
1. Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven. And the Sadducees and Pharisees came, and tempting Him kept asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 The Sadducees and Pharisees who disagreed with each other in regard to the most essential truths, — for the Pharisees champion the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, hoping that there will …
Heidelberg Catechism · 3 passages
Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death? A. That I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death — to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father i…
Q. Why do you call him our Lord? A. Because — not with gold or silver, but with his precious blood — he has set us free from sin and from the tyranny of the devil, and has bought us, body and soul, to be his very own.
Q. How does the holy conception and birth of Christ benefit you? A. He is our mediator, and with his innocence and perfect holiness he removes from God's sight my sin — mine since I was conceived.
It pleased God, in His eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, His only begotten Son, according to the covenant made between them both, to be the Mediator between God and man; the Prophet, Priest, and King; Head and Savior of His church, the heir of all things, and judge of the world; unto whom He did from all eternity give a people to be His seed and to be by Him…
The atonement is the heart of the gospel and the center of all Christian theology. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. Spurgeon proclaims that the blood of Christ is not a metaphor but the price paid for human redemption — the Lamb of God was slain from the foundation of the world. Every Old Testament sacrifice pointed forward to the Cross, and every be…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 5:7 — Purge 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:
  • 1Cor 5:7 — Purge 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:
  • 1John 1:7 — But 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.
  • 1John 1:7 — But 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.
  • 1John 2:2 — And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
  • 1Pet 2:22 — Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
  • 1Pet 3:18 — For 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:
  • Acts 8:32 — The 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:
  • Acts 8:32 — The 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:
  • Acts 20:28 — Take 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.
  • Col 1:14 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
  • Col 1:14 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
  • Dan 9:24 — Seventy 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 right
  • Deut 16:6 — But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Eg
  • Eph 1:7 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
  • Eph 5:27 — That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
  • Exod 12:5 — Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
  • Exod 24:6 — And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
  • Exod 29:1 — And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
  • Gen 4:4 — And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
  • Gen 22:8 — And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
  • Gen 22:13 — And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his
  • Heb 7:26 — For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
  • Heb 9:12 — Neither 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.
  • Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Heb 9:23 — It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • Isa 53:7 — He 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.
  • John 1:29 — The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
  • John 1:29 — The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
  • John 1:36 — And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
  • John 1:36 — And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
  • John 14:30 — Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
  • Lev 22:19 — Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
  • Lev 22:20 — But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
  • Lev 23:12 — And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
  • Luke 23:4 — Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.
  • Luke 23:41 — And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
  • Mark 10:45 — For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  • Matt 20:28 — Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  • Matt 25:34 — Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: