1 Peter 2:24

And he took away all our sins, and, in his body, lifted them to the cross; that we, when dead to sin, might live by his righteousness: for by his wounds, ye are healed.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

In Context

23When he was reviled, be reviled not; and he suffered and threatened not, but committed his cause to the Judge of righteousness.

25For ye, once went astray, like sheep; but ye have now returned to the Shepherd and Curator of your souls.

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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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