1 Peter 2:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:”
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“For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:”
King James Version · Public Domain“For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Peter 2:21 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 85:13Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.
- Matthew 10:38and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
- Matthew 11:29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- Matthew 16:24Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
- Mark 8:34Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
- Luke 9:23Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
- Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
- Luke 24:26Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
- John 13:15I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
- John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
- Acts 9:16I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”
- Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
- Acts 17:3explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.
- Romans 8:29For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- 1 Corinthians 11:1You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
- Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
- Philippians 2:5Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
- 1 Thessalonians 3:3so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:2For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
- 2 Timothy 3:12Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
- Hebrews 2:10In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
- 1 Peter 1:20He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
- 1 Peter 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- 1 Peter 3:9Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
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