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

 (vi) The rebirth of the Christian is a rebirth to righteousness ( 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:9; 1 John 5:18). In this rebirth he is cleansed from himself, the sins which shackle him and the habits which bind him; and he is given a power which enables him to walk in righteousness. That is not to say that the man who is reborn will never sin; but it is to say that every time he falls he will be given the power and the grace to rise again. 