1 Peter 2:21

Tree of Life Version

For you were called to this, because Messiah also suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow in His footsteps:

Cross References

Psalm 85:13

Yes, Adonai will give what is good, and our land will yield its produce.

Matthew 10:38

And whoever does not take up his cross and follow after Me isn’t worthy of Me.

Matthew 11:29

Take 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 16:24

Then Yeshua said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to follow after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

Luke 24:26

Was it not necessary for Messiah to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”

John 13:15

I have given you an example—you should do for each other what I have done for you.

John 16:33

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have shalom. In the world you will have trouble, but take heart! I have overcome the world!”

Acts 14:22

They were strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to persevere in faith, and saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”

Acts 17:3

He opened them and gave evidence that Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead, saying, “This Yeshua, whom I declare to you, is the Messiah.”

Acts 9:16

For I will show him how much he must suffer for My name’s sake.”

Romans 8:29

For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

1 Corinthians 11:1

Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Messiah.

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, just as Messiah also loved us and gave Himself up for us as an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

Philippians 2:5

Have this attitude in yourselves, which also was in Messiah Yeshua,

1 Thessalonians 3:3

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know we are destined for this.

1 Thessalonians 4:2

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Yeshua.

2 Timothy 3:12

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Messiah Yeshua will be persecuted.

Hebrews 2:10

For it was fitting for God—for whom and through whom all things exist—in leading many sons to glory, to perfect through sufferings the initiator of their salvation.

1 Peter 1:20

He was chosen before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

1 Peter 2:24

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we, removed from sins, might live for righteousness. “By His wounds you were healed.”

1 Peter 3:18

For Messiah once suffered for sins also—the righteous for the unrighteous—in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Ruach.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not repay evil for evil or insult for insult, but give a blessing instead—it is for this reason you were called, so that you might inherit a blessing.

1 Peter 4:1

Therefore, since Messiah suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same attitude. For the one who has suffered in the flesh is finished with sin.

1 Peter 4:13

Instead, rejoice insofar as you share in the sufferings of Messiah, so that at the revelation of His glory you may also rejoice and be glad.

1 John 2:6

whoever claims to abide in Him must walk just as He walked.

1 John 3:16

We have come to know love by this—Yeshua laid down His life for us, and we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

Revelation 12:11

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even in the face of death.