Notice that Peter calls gold and silver, two of the most stable and precious elements in the universe, as corruptible when compared to the "precious blood of Christ."
Why should we care that the blood of Jesus is not corruptible?
His blood cleanses us, now, from all sin (1 John 1: 7), while the blood of bulls and goats could never suffice:
"For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" (Hebrews 9: 13-14)
Then the writer of Hebrews shares:
"For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." (Hebrews 10: 14)
This blood perfects us forever, in that in our conscience we need never again have a sense of sin and shame to bring us into bondage.
We need to understand that this blood is covering every aspect of our experience, and by this blood, a New Covenant is enacted, one which will never be undone:
"10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)
We know that He will remember our sins no more, because the blood of His Son cleanses us forever more, and thus we are justified from all things (Acts 13: 38-39)
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