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 body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,

Wasn't it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?"

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying, "This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ."

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

For us

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

Leaving

Deliverance goes before him, and prepares a pathway for him.

For I have given you an example -- you should do just as I have done for you.

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

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

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,

The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.

General references

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

After saying good-bye to them, he went to the mountain to pray.

"I do not accept praise from people,

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

You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,