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

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Bible References

Because

he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

Well, as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, let this very conviction that he who has suffered in the flesh gets quit of sin,

Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?"

explaining and quoting passages to prove that the messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead, and that "the Jesus I proclaim to you is the messiah."

In bringing many sons to glory, it was befitting that He for whom and by whom the universe exists, should perfect the Pioneer of their salvation by suffering.

For us

He was predestined before the foundation of the world and has appeared at the end of the ages for your sake;

Leaving

for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you.

For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son ??that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood.

Copy me, as I copy Christ.

and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus.

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.

General references

and after saying goodbye to them he went up the hill to pray.

I accept no credit from men,

Bless those who make a practice of persecuting you; bless them instead of cursing them.

Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus.