Jewish Bride - Step Two

Step Two: Price of the Bride

In Bible times Brides were purchased. The price was paid to the father of the bride, both to compensate him for the loss of a worker and to show him how much the bridegroom loved and valued the bride. The groom would have to raise this money during his preparing of their future home. This bride price was usually equal to at least one year of the groom’s wages. It was a high price, for brides were to be highly valued and not easily obtained.

We, as the bride of Christ, have also been purchased with a price. A very high price — the blood of Jesus. His very own blood shed upon a cross on Calvary’s hill was the price He paid for His bride. We are a highly treasured bride, worth far more than rubies. Proverbs 31:10-12, ‘Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.’ For we have been given the righteousness of Christ at our new birth. We stand full of His grace and glory – in fact, when God looks down on us He sees the image of Jesus in our hearts, not the filthy rags that we had owned before.

1 Peter 1:18,19: "Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from our aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot."

Ephesians 1:13, 14: In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.


1 Corinthians 7:23 says, "We were bought at a price, so do not become slaves of men."

We belong to Christ. He is our Bridegroom. We are His Bride. We are in this world but we are not of this world.

1 Corinthians 6: 19,20: "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s."