knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
(16) ‘The verb λυτρόω means properly to redeem by a price from tyranny or bondage, but its meaning here, and in Luke 24:21, and Titus 2:14, is merely to deliver. “Vain conversation” signifies a useless, profitless mode of living. — Ed. 