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

Bible References

Because

He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,

So then, since Christ has suffered in our physical form, you too must arm yourselves with the same determination. For whoever suffers in his physical form has done with sin,

Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and thus to enter into His glory?"

explaining them and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead, and said, "This very Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Christ."

For it was appropriate for Him, who is the Final Goal and the First Cause of the universe, in bringing many children to glory, to make the Leader in their salvation perfect through the process of sufferings.

For us

who was foreordained for it before the foundation of the world but was brought out to public view at the end of the ages, for the sake of you

Leaving

For I have set you an example, in order that you too may practice what I have done to you.

For those on whom He set His heart beforehand He marked off as His own to be made like His Son, that He might be the eldest of many brothers;

You must follow my example, just as I myself am following Christ's.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had.

Whoever claims, "I am always in union with Him," ought to live as He lived.

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the message to which they bore testimony, because they did not cling to life but courted death.

General references

After He had told them "Goodbye," He went up the hill to pray.

I do not accept any honor from men,

Keep on blessing your persecutors; keep on blessing and stop cursing them.

Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had.