1 Peter 2:21 Cross References - Riverside

²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ too suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow in his foot-steps.

³⁸ Whoever does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If any one chooses to come after me, let him disown self and take up his cross and follow me.

³⁴ Then he called the crowd along with his disciples and said to them, "If any one wishes to come after me, let him disown himself and take up his cross and follow me. ³⁵ Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake and the sake of the good news will save it.

²³ He said to all: "If any one chooses to come after me, let him disown himself and take up his cross every day and follow me. ²⁴ He who chooses to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. ²⁵ For what will it profit a man to gain the whole world if he has lost or forfeited himself?

²⁶ "If any one comes to me and does not hate his father and his mother and his wife and his children and his brothers and his sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine. ²⁷ Whoever does not take up his own cross and come after me cannot be a disciple of mine.

²⁶ Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and enter into his glory?"

¹⁵ For I have given you an example that you may do as I have done to you.

³³ I have spoken these things to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you have distress. But he courageous. I have conquered the world."

¹⁶ I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."

²² reassuring the minds of the disciples and encouraging them to be steadfast in the faith, saying, "Through many trials we must enter into the kingdom of God."

³ explaining and showing that it was necessary that the Christ should suffer and rise from the dead, and saying, "Jesus of whom I am telling you is the Christ."

²⁹ For those whom he foreknew he also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

¹ IMITATE me as I imitate Christ.

² and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God yielding a fragrant odor.

⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

³ that no one might be disturbed in these trials. For you yourselves know that we are destined to this.

² For you know what directions we have given you through the Lord Jesus.

¹² And all who are determined to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

¹⁰ For it was fitting that he through whom are all things and for whom are all things, when leading many sons to glory, should make the great Leader of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

²⁰ who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of time for your sake

²⁴ He bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we might die to sins and live to righteousness.

⁹ not repaying evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but rather blessing, for that is what you were called for — to inherit a blessing.

¹⁸ For Christ once for all died for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might lead us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

¹ SINCE, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with the same mind. For he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

⁶ He who says that he is abiding in him ought himself to live as he lived.

¹⁶ By this we have come to know love — that Christ laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

¹¹ But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of testimony to him, and they loved not their lives even to death.