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 who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
• Matt 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to 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 you also should do as I have done to you.
• Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
• 1 Jn 3:16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• 1 Cor 11:1Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
• Phil 2:5Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
• 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• 1 Pet 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from 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 whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• Matt 10:38He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.
• John 16:33I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
• Luke 14:26–27“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
• 1 Pet 3:9not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
• Ps 85:13Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.
• 2 Tim 3:12Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
• Rev 12:11They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
• Heb 2:10For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
• 1 Pet 1:20who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
• Luke 9:23–25He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
• Mark 8:34–35He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• 1 Th 3:3that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
• Luke 24:26Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
• 1 Th 4:2For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
• Acts 17:3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
• Acts 9:16For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

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