1 Peter 1:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλὰ τιμίῳ αἵματι ὡς ἀμνοῦ, ἀμώμου καὶ ἀσπίλου Χριστοῦ:

Transliteration

But with timiō haimati as of amnou, amōmou and aspilou Christou:

Grammar Details

• *timiō*: dative, neuter, singular - means/instrument
• *haimati*: dative, neuter, singular - means/instrument
• *amnou*: genitive, masculine, singular - comparison
• *amōmou*: genitive, masculine, singular - attributive
• *aspilou*: genitive, masculine, singular - attributive
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - apposition/identification

Word Meanings

• *timiō*: precious/valuable/costly
• *haimati*: blood/bloodshed
• *amnou*: lamb/sheep
• *amōmou*: unblemished/without defect/flawless
• *aspilou*: spotless/unstained/without blemish
• *Christou*: Christ/Messiah/Anointed One

Referenced Verses

• John 1:29 : 29 On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said,“Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
• Exod 12:5 : 5 Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
• John 1:36 : 36 Gazing at Jesus as he walked by, he said,“Look, the Lamb of God!”
• 1 Pet 2:22-24 : 22 He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
• Col 1:14 : 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
• Heb 9:12-14 : 12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
• Rev 5:6 : 6 Then I saw standing in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb that appeared to have been killed. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
• Acts 8:32-35 : 32 Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this:“He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 33 In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth.” 34 Then the eunuch said to Philip,“Please tell me, who is the prophet saying this about– himself or someone else?” 35 So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
• 1 Cor 5:7-8 : 7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough– you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ– the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood
• Eph 1:7 : 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace
• Isa 53:7 : 7 He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 “Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.
• Zech 13:7 : 7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.
• Matt 20:28 : 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• Matt 26:28 : 28 for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
• Rev 7:14 : 14 So I said to him,“My lord, you know the answer.” Then he said to me,“These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!
• Rev 14:1 : 1 An Interlude: The Song of the 144,000 Then I looked, and here was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were one hundred and forty-four thousand, who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.