1 Peter 2:21
For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth;
Cross References
Psalms 85:13Righteousness shall go before him, and shall set his footsteps on the way.
Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;
Mark 8:34And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
Luke 14:26If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;
John 13:15for I have given you an example that, as I have done to you, ye should do also.
Acts 9:16for *I* will shew to him how much 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 →