1 Peter 2:21 — Community Reflections

1 PETER 2:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

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

To this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps — the assertion that believers are 'called' (kaleo) to suffer establishes suffering as part of Christian vocation. Christ's passion (epathe) serves as a hypogrammos (example/template) for believers to 'follow in his footsteps' (epikolouthēsete), suggesting that imitation of Christ involves a willingness to suffer innocently.

Church Fathers on 1 Peter 2:21

Let us then continually persevere in our hope, and the earnest of our righteousness, which is Jesus Christ, who bore our sins in His own body on the tree, 1 Peter 2:24 who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, 1 Peter 2:22 but endured all things for us, that we might live in Him. 1 John 4:9 Let us then be imitators of His patience; and if we suffer Acts 5:41; 1 Peter 4:16 for His name's sake, let us glorify Him. For He has set us this example 1 Peter 2:21 in…
Polycarp · 2nd century · Epistle to the Philippians, 8

But if we also, beloved brethren, are in Christ; if we put Him on, if He is the way of our salvation, who follow Christ in the footsteps of salvation, let us walk by the example of Christ, as the Apostle John instructs us, saying, He who says he abides in Christ, ought himself also to walk even as He walked. 1 John 2:6 Peter also, upon whom by the Lord's condescension the Church was founded, Matthew 16:18 lays it down in his epistle, and says, Christ suffered for us, leaving…
Cyprian · 3rd century · On the Advantage of Patience, 9

Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain

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