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 carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

For Christ himself died once for all, for sin, an upright man for unrighteous men, to bring us to God, and was physically put to death, but he was made alive in the Spirit.

Since Christ therefore has suffered in our physical nature, you must also arm yourselves with the same resolve. For he who suffers in his physical nature has done with sin,

Did not the Christ have to suffer thus before entering upon his glory?"

explaining them and showing that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. "Jesus," he said, "of whom I am telling you, is the Christ!"

For it was appropriate that he who is the great First Cause of the universe should, in guiding his many children to his glorious salvation, make their leader in it fully qualified through what he suffered.

For us

who was predestined for this before the foundation of the world, but was revealed only at the end of the ages,

Leaving

For I have set you an example, in order that you may do what I have done to you.

For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;

You must follow my example in this, as I am following Christ's.

and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

whoever says, "I am always in union with him" must live just as he lived.

We know what love means from the fact that he laid down his life for us; so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

They have conquered him because of the Lamb's blood, and the message to which they bore testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.

General references

When he had taken leave of the people he went up the hill to pray.

I do not accept any honor from men,

Bless your persecutors; bless them; do not curse them.

Have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.