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 2:6He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
• Matt 16:24Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• John 13:15For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
• Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• 1 Jn 3:16Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
• 1 Cor 11:1Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
• Phil 2:5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
• 1 Pet 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• 1 Pet 4:1Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
• Matt 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
• Rom 8:29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
• Acts 14:22Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• Matt 10:38And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
• John 16:33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
• Luke 14:26–27If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
• 1 Pet 3:9Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
• Ps 85:13Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
• 2 Tim 3:12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
• Rev 12:11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
• Heb 2:10For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
• 1 Pet 1:20Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
• Luke 9:23–25And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
• Mark 8:34–35And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• 1 Th 3:3That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
• Luke 24:26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
• 1 Th 4:2For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
• Acts 17:3Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
• Acts 9:16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.

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