^{18 Ref} having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

^{19 Ref} but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --

^{20 Ref} foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

^{18 Ref} knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

^{19 Ref} but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, the blood of Christ;

^{20 Ref} who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,