1 Peter 2:21
For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.
Cross References
Psalms 85:13For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.
Matthew 11:29Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.
Mark 8:34And calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to them: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Luke 14:26If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Hate not, etc... The law of Christ does not allow us to hate even our enemies, much less our parents: but the meaning of the text is, that we must be in that disposition of soul, as to be willing to renounce, and part with every thing, how near or dear soever it may be to us, that would keep us from following Christ.
John 13:15For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so you do also.
Acts 9:16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
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 →