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

 (vii) The rebirth of the Christian is a rebirth to love ( 1 John 4:7). Because the life of God is in him, he is cleansed from the essential unforgiving bitterness of the self-centred life and there is in him something of the forgiving and sacrificial love of God. 