1 Peter 2:21 (WEB)
For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
Catechism · 1
“He calls his disciples to "take up [their] cross and follow (him)", for "Christ also suffered for (us), leaving (us) an example so that (we) should follow in his steps."” — Catechism footnote: I Pt 2:21.
Fathers and councils · 19
Augustine of Hippo
“Now the Apostle Peter saith, “Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow His steps;” this is the meaning of “to respond.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21.
Read the whole comment“Because “Christ hath suffered for us,” leaving us an example, as saith the Apostle Peter, “that we should follow His steps.”” — editor's note: 1 Peter ii. 21
Read the whole comment““Blessed are they, who suffer persecution for righteousness sake;” imitate Him, Who “suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye follow His steps.”” — editor's note: 1 Peter ii. 21
Read the whole comment“…and a pleasure to us to keep silence, then let us ponder what has been set before us by Him who has “showed us an example that we should follow His steps.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21
Read the whole comment“Let us prove that He is our Example; “Christ,” says Peter, “suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow His steps.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21.
Read the whole comment“In the first place God Himself, Christ, exhorteth us, of whom the Apostle Peter said, “Christ hath suffered for us, leaving you an example that ye should follow His steps, who did no sin, neither was guile, found in His mouth.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment“…in His mouth; who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered wrong, He threatened not, but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21–23.
Read the whole comment““Because Christ suffered for us,” says the Apostle Peter, “leaving us an example that we should follow His steps.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21.
Read the whole comment“For as the Apostle Peter also says, “Christ suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow His steps.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21.
Read the whole comment“The Lord, in exhorting His servants to endure with patience the hatred of the world, proposes to them no greater and better example than His own; seeing that, as the Apostle Peter says, “Christ suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow His steps.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21.
Read the whole comment“…with the example they were to follow, whereof, says the apostle Peter, “Christ suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow His steps:” but just that He says He has finished, what He knew with perfect certainty that He would finish?” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21.
Read the whole comment“This, then, you see is why it was said to him, “Follow me.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…not threaten, being reviled, we should not revile again, but should bless them that curse, and in everything commit ourselves to God who judgeth righteously.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21–23
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Jerome
“The Saviour of the world, who in His virtues and His mode of life has left us an example to follow, was, immediately after His baptism, taken up by the spirit that He might contend with the devil, and after crushing him and overthrowing him might deliver him to his disciples to trample under foot.” — editor's note: Joh. xiii. 15; 1 Pet. ii. 21.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…did and taught; in accordance with what Peter also exhorts and warns, saying, “Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example that ye should follow His steps.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21.
Read the whole comment“…deceit found in His mouth; who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, threatened not, but gave Himself up to him that judged Him unjustly.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21–23, with a singular departure from the received text.
Read the whole comment“In the Epistle of Peter to them of Pontus: “For Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that ye may follow His steps; who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth; who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, threatened not, but gave Himself up to him that judgeth unrighteously.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21–23.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And in the Epistle of Peter we read: “Christ died for us.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21.
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Leo the Great
“Who Himself bare our sins in His body on the tree, that being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21–24: notice the reading of the Vulgate indicanti se iniuste for the correct τῷ κρίνοντι δικαίως (namely God).
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Cross-references · 34
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Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.
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Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 88.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 10.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 64.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 64.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 88.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 10.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 64.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.40.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.40.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.40.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.40.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.40.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 10.
Cited together in Catechism §618.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 64.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 10.
Cited together in Catechism §618.