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1 Peter 2:21
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1 Peter 2:21
21For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
21For euen hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for †vs, leauing vs an example, that yee should follow his steps.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Peter 2:21
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
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To this thing, matter, purpose, or point.
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Named, summoned, invited, proclaimed, or addressed, according to context.
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For the reason that; since.
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The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Borne; undergone; peri mitted; allowed.
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Quitting; withdrawing from; relinquishing; suffering to remain; ceasing; desisting from.
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A pattern or model set before others for imitation.
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Movements or paces of the feet; footsteps, courses, degrees, or stages in going.
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Open the full verse study6He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
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Open the full verse study24¶ Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
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Open the full verse study15For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
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Open the full verse study2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
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Open the full verse study16Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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Open the full verse study1BE ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
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Open the full verse study24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
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Open the full verse study1FORASMUCH then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
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Open the full verse study5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
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Open the full verse study29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
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Open the full verse study22Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
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Open the full verse study29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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Open the full verse study18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
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Open the full verse study38And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
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Open the full verse study9Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
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Open the full verse study33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
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Open the full verse study26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
27And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
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Open the full verse study12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
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Open the full verse study10For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
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Open the full verse study13Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
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Open the full verse study11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
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Open the full verse study20Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
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Open the full verse study3That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
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Open the full verse study2For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
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Open the full verse study3Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
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Open the full verse study16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
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Open the full verse study26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
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Open the full verse study23¶ And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
24For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
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Open the full verse study34¶ And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
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