Redeemed (3084) (lutroo [word study]) is derived from lutron (which is derived from luo = to loosen that which is bound, especially freeing those in prison). The noun lutron is the ransom price paid for loosing captives from their bonds and setting them at liberty. The verb lutroo refers to the releasing of someone held captive (e.g., a prisoner or a slave) on receipt of the ransom payment. The Roman Empire had by some estimates as many 6 million slaves and the buying and selling of them was a major business. If a person wanted to free a loved one or friend who was enslaved, he would pay the redemption price, purchasing or redeeming that slave for himself and then granting him freedom, testifying to the deliverance by a written certificate. Take a moment to ponder your eternal redemption by Jesus' precious blood as you listen to the words of a modern rendition of the hymn... DEARLY WE'RE BOUGHT Listen to this one! from Red Mt Music Related word studies translated redeem, redemption, purchased: apolutrosis exagorazo agorazo lutrosis Lutroo is used 3 times in the NT (Lk. 24:21; Titus 2:14; 1Pet. 1:18) Luke records the words of Cleopas, one of the men on the road to Emmaus, to the risen Jesus (Whom God did not allow them to recognize and who had just accomplished redemption by His death and resurrection!)... "But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened." (Luke 24:21) Cleopas uses lutron to refer to the redemption of Israel from bondage to Rome for he did not understand that it was Jesus' death which would pay the price of redemption from bondage to sin. Cleopas, as well as many of the Jews, had been looking for Jesus to usher in an immediate earthly kingdom and thus when Jesus died, their hopes were dashed. As A W Tozer said The gospel is light but only the Spirit can give sight. The other NT use of lutroo is found Paul's epistle to Titus 2:14 (note) where we read that "our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus" (Titus 2:13-note).. gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. (Titus 2:14-note) Here Paul uses lutroo to explain a dual effect of this redemption - On one side what we were redeemed from - every lawless deed (the enslavement to the power of sin all men have inherited from Adam) - and then what we were redeemed for - to be His own possession and to live a life that demonstrates not just who we are (those who have been redeemed) but whose we are (Christ's possession). Redemption was an important truth throughout the entire the Old Testament Scriptures. It is not surprising then that in the Septuagint (LXX) lutroo is used 88 times (Ex. 6:6; 13:13, 15; 15:13; 34:20; Lev. 19:20; 25:25, 30, 33, 48-49, 54; 27:13, 15, 19-20, 27-29, 31, 33; Num. 18:15, 17; Deut. 7:8; 9:26; 13:5; 15:15; 21:8; 24:18; 2 Sam. 4:9; 7:23; 1 Ki. 1:29; 1 Chr. 17:21; Neh. 1:10; Esther 4:17; Ps. 7:2; 25:22; 26:11; 31:5; 32:7; 34:22; 44:26; 49:7, 15; 55:18; 59:1; 69:18; 71:23; 72:14; 74:2; 77:15; 78:42; 103:4; 106:10; 107:2; 119:134, 154; 130:8; 136:24; 144:10; Prov. 23:11; Isa. 35:9; 41:14; 43:1, 14; 44:22ff; 51:11; 52:3; 62:12; 63:9; Jer. 15:21; 31:11; 50:34; Lam. 3:58; 5:8; Dan. 4:27; 6:27; Hos. 7:13; 13:14; Mic. 4:10; 6:4; Zeph. 3:15; Zech. 10:8). To the Jews reading Peter's epistle the mention of "redeemed" would bring to mind the picture of God's deliverance from Egyptian bondage. In fact the first use of lutroo in the OT is found in Exodus 6:6 where Moses records God's response to Israel's cries for deliverance from Egyptian slavery... Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, 'I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens (forced heavy labor that Israel was subjected to in Egypt) of the Egyptians, and I will deliver (drawing out, pulling out, deliver or rescue, pluck, preserve, recover, snatch away, save, take out) you from their bondage. I will also redeem (Hebrew = goel/ga'al; LXX = lutroo - What was the "redemption price?" Ex 12:5, 13) you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. (Exodus 6:6 cp Dt 7:8 = What was Jehovah's motive for carrying out redemption?) In a similar passage Moses records that... In Thy lovingkindness Thou hast led the people whom Thou hast redeemed (Hebrew = goel/ga'al; LXX = lutroo); In Thy strength Thou hast guided them to Thy holy habitation." (Exodus 15:13) In another instructive Septuagint use of lutroo, we read about the Kinsman-Redeemer in Leviticus that... If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back (Hebrew = goel/ga'al = reclaim, to vindicate the rights; LXX = lutroo) what his relative has sold." (Leviticus 25:25) (Goel/ga'al is used 17 times in Leviticus) Redemption was a technical term for money paid to buy back and set free prisoners of war or to emancipate slaves from their masters. Believers have been ransomed or bought back, like the redemption of a bondservant by a kinsman-redeemer (Lev 25:49). (Click Part 1 Part 2 for an overview of Kinsman-Redeemer and the relationship to Christ) Before redemption we were held captive by Satan to do his will and were enslaved to our old sin nature inherited from Adam. In Christ we have been ransomed by His blood (1Cor 6:20-note; Rev 5:9-note), are no longer under the curse of the law (Gal 3:13; 4:5) and have been released from the bondage of sin into the freedom of grace. Redemption is through the blood of Christ (Col 1:14-note, Ep 1:7-note) so the central truth of REDEMPTION is a costly payment, the infinitely priceless blood of the Son of God. The truth about redemption is also practical. In this section of the letter, Peter is exhorting believers to remember the “price” paid for their redemption as a motivation to personal holiness. Peter had just written that as obedient children we should not continually be conformed to the former lusts (that governed us prior to salvation)...but like the Holy One Who called us" we are to be holy in all our behavior (see notes 1 Peter 1:13; 1:14; 1:15; 1:16) adding that... if you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each man's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay upon earth knowing that you were not redeemed (lutroo) with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life (Christ saved us from a life of emptiness) inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ." (see notes 1 Peter 1:17; 1:18; 1:19) So Peter exhorts us to live holy lives motivated by a reverential awe (fear) of the fact that we will be impartially judged and also motivated by the costliness of the redemption price, the blood of Christ. The writer of Hebrews reminds us of the incalculable value of Christ's redemptive work, writing that it was effected not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption." (He 9:12-note) so that... those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance." (He 9:15-note) Our redemption in Christ is final and permanent. Nor Silver Nor Gold by James Gray Click to play Nor silver nor gold hath obtained my redemption, Nor riches of earth could have saved my poor soul; The blood of the cross is my only foundation, The death of my Savior now maketh me whole. Refrain I am redeemed, but not with silver, I am bought, but not with gold; Bought with a price, the blood of Jesus, Precious price of love untold. Nor silver nor gold hath obtained my redemption, The guilt on my conscience too heavy had grown; The blood of the cross is my only foundation, The death of my Savior could only atone. ><>><>><> Torrey's Topic Redemption Defined -1 Corinthians 6:20; 7:23 Is of God -Isaiah 44:21-23; 43:1; Luke 1:68 Is by Christ Matthew 20:28; Galatians 3:13 Is by the blood of Christ -Acts 20:28; Hebrews 9:12; 1 Peter 1:19; Revelation 5:9 Christ sent to effect -Galatians 4:4,5 Christ is made, to us -1 Corinthians 1:30 IS FROM The bondage of the law -Galatians 4:5 The curse of the law -Galatians 3:13 The power of sin -Romans 6:18,22 The power of the grave -Psalms 49:15 All troubles -Psalms 25:22 All iniquity -Psalms 130:8; Titus 2:14 All evil -Genesis 48:16 The present evil world -Galatians 1:4 Vain conversation -1 Peter 1:18 Enemies -Psalms 106:10,11; Jeremiah 15:21 Death -Hosea 13:14 Destruction -Psalms 103:4 Man cannot effect -Psalms 49:7 Corruptible things cannot purchase -1 Peter 1:18 PROCURES FOR US Justification -Romans 3:24 Forgiveness of sin -Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14 Adoption -Galatians 4:4,5 Purification -Titus 2:14 The present life, the only season for -Job 36:18,19 DESCRIBED AS Precious -Psalms 49:8 Plenteous -Psalms 130:7 Eternal -Hebrews 9:12 SUBJECTS OF The soul -Psalms 49:8 The body -Romans 8:23 The life -Psalms 103:4; Lamentations 3:58 The inheritance -Ephesians 1:14 MANIFESTS THE Power of God -Isaiah 50:2 Grace of God -Isaiah 52:3 Love and pity of God -Isaiah 63:9; John 3:16; Romans 6:8; 1 John 4:10 A subject for praise -Isaiah 44:22,23; 51:11 Old Testament saints partakers of -Hebrews 9:15 THEY WHO PARTAKE OF Are the property of God -Isaiah 43:1; 1 Corinthians 6:20 Are first-fruits to God Revelation 14:4 Are a peculiar people -2 Samuel 7:23; Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 2:9 Are assured of -Job 19:25; Psalms 31:5 Are sealed to the day of -Ephesians 4:30 Are Zealous of good works Ephesians 2:10; Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 2:9 Walk safely in holiness -Isaiah 35:8,9 Shall return to Zion with joy -Isaiah 35:10 Alone can learn the songs of heaven -Revelation 14:3,4 Commit themselves to God Psalms 31:5 Have an earnest of the completion of Ephesians 1:14; 2 Corinthians 1:22 Wait for the completion of -Romans 8:23; Philippians 3:20,21; Titus 2:11-13 Pray for the completion of -Psalms 26:11; 44:26 Praise God for -Psalms 71:23; 103:4; Revelation 5:9 Should glorify God for -1 Corinthians 6:20 Should be without fear -Isaiah 43:1 TYPIFIED Israel -Exodus 6:6 First-born -Exodus 13:11-15; Numbers 18:15 Atonement-money -Exodus 30:12-15 Bond-servant -Leviticus 25:47-54 "Copy and paste the address below into your web browser in order to go to the original page which will allow you to access live links related to the material on this page - these links include Scriptures (which can be read in context), Scripture pop-ups on mouse over, and a variety of related resources such as Bible dictionary articles, commentaries, sermon notes and theological journal articles related to the topic under discussion." http://www.preceptaustin.org/1_peter_118-19.htm#Redeemed