1 Peter 2:21

For this is your calling; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps;

Montgomery 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 credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

22He committed no sin, Neither was guile found in his mouth.

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Cross References

Matthew 11:29"Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Mark 8:34Then summoning the crowd to him, with his disciples. he said. "If any man wishes to follow me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and so follow me.

Luke 14:26"If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

John 13:15for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you.

Acts 9:16"for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of 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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