1 Peter 2:21

In 9 translations

BSB

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

KJV

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

WEB

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,TR reads “us” instead of “you”

ASV

For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

LSV

for to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving to you an example, that you may follow His steps,

YLT

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

DBY

For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:

DRC

For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps.

GNV

For hereunto ye are called: for Christ also suffred for you, leauing you an ensample that ye should follow his steppes.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ ἐκλήθητε, ὅτι καὶ Χριστὸς ἔπαθεν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, ὑμῖν ὑπολιμπάνων ὑπογραμμὸν ἵνα ἐπακολουθήσητε τοῖς ἴχνεσιν αὐτοῦ·

RP2018

Εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ ἐκλήθητε, ὅτι καὶ χριστὸς ἔπαθεν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, ὑμῖν ὑπολιμπάνων ὑπογραμμόν, ἵνα ἐπακολουθήσητε τοῖς ἴχνεσιν αὐτοῦ·

TR-Boyd

Εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ ἐκλήθητε, ὅτι καὶ Χριστὸς ἔπαθεν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, ἡμῖν ὑπολιμπάνων ὑπογραμμόν, ἵνα ἐπακολουθήσητε τοῖς ἴχνεσιν αὐτοῦ·ἡμῶν, ἡμῖν ¦ ὑμῶν, ὑμῖν ELZ

SCR1894

εις τουτο γαρ εκληθητε οτι και χριστος επαθεν υπερ ημων ημιν υπολιμπανων υπογραμμον ινα επακολουθησητε τοις ιχνεσιν αυτου

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• 1 John 2:6Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
• Matthew 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.
• Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
• 1 John 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 Corinthians 11:1You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
• 1 Peter 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.”
• Philippians 2:5Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
• 1 Peter 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.
• Matthew 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.
• 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.
• Romans 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.
• 1 Peter 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,
• Matthew 10:38and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
• 1 Peter 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.
• 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. And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot…

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