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

which his own self bare our sins in his body on the tree, that we should be delivered from sin and should live in righteousness. By whose stripes ye were healed.

Forasmuch as Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, for to bring us to God, and was killed, as pertaining to the flesh: but was quickened in the spirit.

Forasmuch as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he which suffereth in the flesh ceaseth from sin,

Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?"

opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered and risen again from death. And that this Jesus was Christ, whom, said he, "I preach to you."

For it became him - for whom are all things, and by whom are all things - after that he had brought many sons unto glory, that he should make the Lord of their salvation perfect through suffering.

For us

which was ordained before the world was made: but was declared in the last times for your sakes.

Leaving

Righteousness shall go before him, and prepare the way for his coming.

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

For those which he knew before, he also ordained before, that they should be like fashioned unto the shape of his son, that he might be the first begotten son among many brethren.

Follow me as I do Christ.

and walk in love even as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet savour to God.

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus:

He that saith he bideth in him, ought to walk even as he walked.

Hereby are we assured of love: because he left his life for us: And therefore we ought also to give our lives for our brethren.

And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death.

General references

Give not the fool an answer after his foolishness, lest thou become like unto him;

And as soon as he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.

I receive not praise of men:

Bless them which persecute you: bless, but curse not.

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus: