knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
They said to Jesus one day, "What must we do, to do the works of God?" And Jesus said, "This is the work of God, just believe on him who he has sent" ( John 6:28 , John 6:29 ). And so God has done the work; God's part, all of this was God's part. Then He finally gets to your part: through faith, just believing and trusting that work of God.