1 Peter 2:21
For hereunto ye are called: for Christ also suffred for you, leauing you an ensample that ye should follow his steppes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
22Who did no sinne, neither was there guile found in his mouth.
Cross References
Psalms 85:13Righteousnesse shall go before him, and shall set her steps in the way.
Matthew 11:29Take my yoke on you, and learne of me that I am meeke and lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules.
Mark 8:34And hee called the people vnto him with his disciples, and saide vnto them, Whosoeuer will follow me, let him forsake himselfe, and take vp his crosse, and follow me.
Luke 14:26If any man come to mee, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters: yea, and his owne life also, he can not be my disciple.
John 13:15For I haue giuen you an example, that ye should doe, euen as I haue done to you.
Acts 9:16For I will shewe him, howe many things he must suffer for my Names 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 →