1 Peter 2:21 - The Scriptures 2009

²¹ For to this you were called, because Messiah also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ For even to this were you called [it is inseparable from your vocation]. For Christ also suffered for you, leaving you [His personal] example, so that you should follow in His footsteps.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

Common English Bible

²¹ You were called to this kind of endurance, because Christ suffered on your behalf. He left you an example so that you might follow in his footsteps.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ For you have been called to this because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in his footsteps.

1 Peter 2:21 Cross References

Psalm 85:13

Righteousness goes before Him, And prepares a way for His footsteps.

Matthew 10:38

“And he who does not take up his stake and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

Matthew 11:29

“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and humble in heart, and you shall find rest for your beings

Matthew 16:24

Then יהושע said to His taught ones, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his stake, and follow Me.

Luke 24:26

Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these and to enter into His esteem?

John 13:15

“For I gave you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

John 16:33

“These words I have spoken to you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you have pressure, but take courage, I have overcome the world.”

Acts 14:22

strengthening the beings of the taught ones, encouraging them to continue in the belief, and that through many pressures we have to enter the reign of Elohim.

Acts 17:3

explaining and pointing out that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This is the Messiah, יהושע, whom I proclaim to you.”

Acts 9:16

For I shall show him how much he has to suffer for My Name.

Romans 8:29

Because those whom He knew beforehand, He also ordained beforehand to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, for Him to be the first-born among many brothers.

1 Corinthians 11:1

Become imitators of me, as I also am of Messiah.

Ephesians 5:2

And walk in love, as Messiah also has loved us, and gave Himself for us, a gift and an offering to Elohim for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Philippians 2:5

For, let this mind be in you which was also in Messiah יהושע,

1 Thessalonians 3:3

that no one should be unsettled by these pressures, for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

1 Thessalonians 4:2

for you know what commands we gave you through the Master יהושע.

2 Timothy 3:12

And indeed, all those wishing to live reverently in Messiah יהושע, shall be persecuted.

Hebrews 2:10

For it was fitting for Him, because of whom all are and through whom all are, in bringing many sons to esteem, to make the Prince of their deliverance perfect through sufferings.

1 Peter 1:20

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

1 Peter 2:24

who Himself bore our sins in His body on the timber, so that we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed.

1 Peter 3:18

Because even Messiah once suffered for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to Elohim, having been put to death indeed in flesh but made alive in the Spirit,

1 Peter 3:9

not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, in order to inherit a blessing.

1 Peter 4:1

Therefore, since Messiah suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

1 Peter 4:13

but as you share Messiah’s sufferings, rejoice, in order that you might rejoice exultingly at the revelation of His esteem.

1 John 2:6

The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked.

1 John 3:16

By this we have known love, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Revelation 12:11

“And they overcame him because of the Blood of the Lamb, and because of the Word of their witness, and they did not love their lives to the death.