1 Peter 2:21

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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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Because

Who Himself bare our sins in his own body on the cross, that we being dead to sins, might live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye are healed.

As Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust (that He might introduce us to God) being indeed put to death in the flesh, but raised to life by the Spirit:

Seeing therefore Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same thought, that he, who hath mortified the flesh, hath ceased from sin;

Was not the Messiah to suffer these things, and so to enter into his glory?

opening them and shewing, that the Messiah was to suffer and rise again from the dead: and that this is the Christ even, Jesus, whom, said he, I preach unto you.

For it became Him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect by sufferings:

For us

who was indeed appointed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times, for your sakes,

Leaving

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

for those whom he foreknew, He also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that He might be as the first-born among many brethren: and whom He before ordained, these He also called;

Be ye then imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.

even as Christ hath loved us, and given Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet perfume.

Let the same 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.

In this we know his love, that He laid down his life for us: and we should be ready to lay down our lives for the brethren.

And they have overcome him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their life unto the death.

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and when He had sent them away, He retired into a mountain to pray.

Though I desire not applause from men:

Bless them that persecute you: bless them, I say, and do not curse them.

Let the same mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: