1 Peter 2:21

To this, indeed, you have been called; because even Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his footsteps.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

In Context

20For what praise is due, if, when you are punished for your faults, you endure it patiently? But if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you endure it patiently, this is praiseworthy in the sight of God.

22He did no sin, nor was guile found in his mouth.

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Cross References

Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.

Mark 8:34And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them: Whoever determines to follow after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Luke 14:26If any one comes to me, and hates not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his own life also, he can not be my disciple.

John 13:15For I have given you an example, that you also may do as I have done for you.

Acts 9:16For I will show him what great things he must 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 →

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