1 Peter 2:21

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 2:21-25

THE EXALTED CHRIST‘Christ also suffered for us … the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.’ 1 Peter 2:21-Lamentations : The Head of the Church is exalted to heaven, and we His members are called upon to look up to our glorious Head. I. The Exalted Christ is the perfect pattern to His Church.—( a) He suffered for us—should we not, therefore, willingly follow in His footsteps, and, as His disciples, bear the cross? But to be fashioned like Him we must look well into the holy passion of our... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:11-25

Their Obedience And Heavenly Connection Is To Be Revealed By Their Lives And By Their Due Submission To Lawful Authority In The Same Way As Christ Submitted Himself Through Suffering And Thereby Wrought Salvation For His People (1 Peter 2:11 to 1 Peter 3:12 ). Peter now tells them how, as sojourners and pilgrims in the world, they are to behave in order to fulfil the role given to them by God in 1 Peter 2:1-10. They are first of all to live in obedience and in accord with their environment... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:21

‘For to this were you called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,’ Indeed such unmerited persecution and suffering was a part of their calling as Christians, for it was apart of their calling to participate in His sufferings. Christ had suffered for them. They should expect to have to suffer for the sake of the world. For they had been called to be an elect race and a holy people (1 Peter 2:9), and as such must expect to suffer, and... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:18-25

1 Peter 2:18-Lamentations : . This is one of the noblest passages in the NT on the real meaning of service. It raised the position of slave at one moment to the highest honour. A man could take all degradation out of it, for he might put into his slavery the whole spirit of Jesus. With exquisite reminiscences of prophetic language and touches of personal experience the writer sketches Christ’ s life and death of ministry, which wrought righteousness and healing. So might their lives, thus... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 2:21

For even hereunto; viz. to patient bearing of sufferings even for well-doing. Were ye called; viz. to Christ and the fellowship of his kingdom; q.d. Your very calling and profession, as Christians, requires this of you. Also; there is an emphasis in this particle, it is as much as if he had said: Even Christ our Lord and Head hath suffered for us, and therefore we that are but his servants and members must not think to escape sufferings. For us; or, as in the margin, for you, which agrees with... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Peter 2:18-25

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES1 Peter 2:18. Servants.—Slaves. Many of the early Christians came from the ranks of slaves, or freedmen. And their freedom in Christ made their bondage to an earthly master specially irksome. Perhaps “the οἰκέται here addressed are domestic servants, who were more exposed to the bad temper of their masters than the servants in the field.” Froward.—Crooked. One who is unreasonably exacting, capricious, and cross-grained.1 Peter 2:19. Conscience toward God.—Better,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:21

1 Peter 2:21 The Great Exemplar. I. That which strikes us first in the example which Christ has left is its faultlessness. We are startled by His own sense of this. He never utters one word to God or to man which implies the consciousness of a single defect. Read the lives of the great servants of God in the Old or New Testament of Abraham, of Moses, of Samuel, of David, of Elijah, of St. Peter, of St. Paul. They all confess sin. They all humble themselves before men. They implore the mercy of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:21-22

1 Peter 2:21-22 Christ our Example. I. While our salvation is specifically described as the effect of our Lord's greatest obedience that is, His death yet, viewing the subject of redemption generally, our salvation is the fruit of His whole obedience. This is apparent from the plan itself of salvation, as revealed to the enlightened mind of a Christian in the Scriptures of truth. It was necessary that the High-priest of our profession should be holy, harmless, undefiled; that of Him, the Victim... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Peter 2:19-23

DISCOURSE: 2397HOW TO BEAR INJURIES1 Peter 2:19-23. This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:1-25

Chapter 2Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and all envying, and all evil speakings ( 1 Peter 2:1 ),Set these things aside, we're to love one another with a pure heart fervently. Set aside the envying, the hypocrisy, the guile, the evil speaking.And as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby: If so be that you have tasted that the Lord is gracious ( 1 Peter 2:2-3 ).There are so many people who desire sensationalism. They desire... read more

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