1 Peter 2:21
For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
22Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth.
Cross References
Psalms 85:13Righteousness shall go before him, and shall make his footsteps a path.
Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye will find rest for your souls.
Mark 8:34And having called in the multitude with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wants to follow behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Luke 14:26If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
John 13:15For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done to you ye also should do.
Acts 9:16For I will give him a glimpse of how many things it is necessary for him to suffer for my name.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 2:14-25
Submission to Magistrates; Various Exhortations; Christ's Example as a Sufferer. ( a. d. 66.) 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the… Read the whole commentary →