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

Philippians 2:5

Bible References

Because

He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;

Therefore, Christ having suffered for us in the flesh, also you arm yourselves with the same thought, that he suffering in the flesh has been made to rest from sin,

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?

opening and setting forth that Christ must have suffered, and to have risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is Christ.

For it became Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory, to perfect the Captain of their salvation through sufferings.

For us

indeed having been foreknown before the foundation of the world, but revealed in the last times for you,

Leaving

Righteousness shall go before Him and shall set us in the way of His steps.

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

For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.

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

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.

For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.

By this we have known the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony. And they did not love their soul until death.

General references

Do not answer a fool according to his foolishness, lest you also be like him.

And taking leave of them, He went away to the mountain to pray.

I do not receive honor from men.

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

For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,