knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
"Peter’s point is that if he and his readers have a special relationship to God by virtue of their calling and their new birth, then it is all the more urgent that they remember who he is in himself, and display the reverence that God deserves." [Note: Michaels, p. 60.] 