1 Peter 2:21
For unto this were ye called; because the Messiah also died for us, and left us this pattern, that ye should walk in his steps.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
22He did no sin; neither was guile found in his mouth.
Cross References
Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you; and learn from me, that I am gentle and subdued in my heart: and ye will find rest for your souls:
Mark 8:34And Jesus called the multitude, together with his disciples, and said to them: Whoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and come after me.
Luke 14:26He that cometh to me, and hateth not his father and his mother, and his brothers and his sisters, and his wife and his children, and his own life also, cannot become a disciple to me.
John 13:15For I have given you this example, that ye might do, as I have done to you.
Acts 9:16For I will show him, how much he is to suffer on account 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 →