Gathering It All Up Into One Sentence

1 Peter 1: 18-19

You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.

So we know that we have been ransomed, rescued, broken the pattern of the lex talionis, life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.  This ransom takes us away from the system that was in place before, the system of sacrifice, of our guilt being placed upon a beast sacrificed in our place.  Nothing, not even the most precious things we can imagine, gold and silver, can bring to us this ransom.  Rather, it comes in the death of Jesus, his blood shed on our behalf, the perfect sacrifice that brings the grace of life.  He is the lamb without blemish, the Passover lamb.  As the angel of death passed over the Israelites before the Exodus to strike down the firstborn of the Egyptians, so the angel will pass over the judgment of death upon us because we have been saved by the blood of Jesus.