1 Peter 2:21

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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

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Because

who himself has borne our sins in his own body on the wood, in order that we, being made free from sins, may live unto righteousness: by whose stripe you are healed.

Because Christ indeed once died for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in spirit:

Therefore Christ having suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same mind: because the one having suffered in carnality has ceased from sin;

Did it not behoove Christ to suffer, and to enter into His glory?

opening and proving, that it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead, and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is the Christ.

For it became him, on account of whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in leading many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering.

For us

foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but having been made manifest at the last of the times for the sake of you,

Leaving

For I have given unto you an example, that you may also do as I have done to you.

Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

Be ye imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.

and walk about in divine love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet savor.

Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus:

The one saying that he abides in him ought himself so to walk about, as he also did walk about.

In this we know the divine love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

And they conquered him through the blood of the Lamb, and the word of their testimony; and with divine love they love not their life unto death.

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And having dismissed them, He went away into the mountain to pray.

I do not receive glory with men;

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and scold not.

Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus: