1 Peter 2:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

Because

For us

1 Peter 1:20

Leaving

General references

Bible References

Because

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;

Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and enter his glory?"

explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ."

For it was fitting that he, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

For us

He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

Leaving

For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

he who says he abides in him ought to walk as he walked.

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even to the death.

General references

And after he had left them, he went up on the mountain to pray.

"I do not receive glory from men.

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,