1 Peter 2:21

Believers are called to endure suffering because Christ suffered for them, leaving an example to follow. Christ's suffering is both our redemption and our pattern.

Cross-references · 29

• 1 Jn 2:6Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
• Matt 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.
• John 13:15I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
• Eph 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
• 1 Jn 3:16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
• 1 Cor 11:1You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
• Phil 2:5Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
• 1 Pet 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 Pet 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
• Matt 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.
• Rom 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.
• 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.
• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
• Matt 10:38and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
• 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!”
• Luke 14:26–27“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.
• 1 Pet 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.
• Ps 85:13Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.
• 2 Tim 3:12Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
• Rev 12:11They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
• Heb 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 Pet 1:20He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
• Luke 9:23–25Then 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.
• Mark 8:34–35Then 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.
• 1 Th 3:3so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
• Luke 24:26Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
• 1 Th 4:2For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
• 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.
• Acts 9:16I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”

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