1 Peter 2:21

In fact this is what you were called to do, because Christ suffered for you and gave you an example, so you should follow in his footsteps.

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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

20However, there's no credit when you're punished for doing something wrong. But if you suffer for doing what is good and right, and you put up with it, then God's grace is with you.

22He never sinned, he never lied;

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Cross References

Psalms 85:13Truth and right go ahead of him to prepare a path for him to walk on.

Matthew 11:29Accept my yoke, and learn from me. For I am kind and have a humble heart, and in me you will find the rest you need.

Mark 8:34Jesus called the crowd and his disciples over to him, and told them, “If you want to follow me, you must give up on yourselves, pick up your cross and follow me.

Luke 14:26“If you want to follow me but you don't hate your father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters—even your own life—you can't be my disciple.

John 13:15I have set you an example, so you should do just as I did.

Acts 9:16I will show him what he'll have to 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 →

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