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

Who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sin might live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh,

Seeing then Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind:

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

Opening them and evincing, That Christ ought to suffer, and to rise from the dead, and that this is the Christ, even Jesus, whom I declare unto you.

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

For us

Who verily was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in these last times for you,

Leaving

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

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated, conformable to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God of a sweet-smelling savour.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

He that saith, he abideth in him, ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the 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

And having sent them away, he went to a mountain to pray.

I receive not honour from men, But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

bless and curse not.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,