Study of Peter 1 & 2: Chapter 2 Verse 21-25...

Christ Is Our Example

21 For you have been called for this purpose, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in His steps, 22 He who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; 23 and while being abusively insulted, He did not insult in return; while suffering, He did not threaten, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; 24 and He Himself brought our sins in His body up on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by His wounds you were healed. 25 For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

Verse 21

We have been called, to be set apart to live like Christ for He came to be an example to us.

Because He left Himself as an example, we are to live like He did.

22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, “It is through many tribulations that we must enter the kingdom of God.” Acts 14:22

Verse 22

Christ was perfect, so we are to strive to be perfect.

9 And His grave was assigned with wicked men,

Yet He was with a rich man in His death,

Because He had done no violence,

Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. Isaiah 53:9

Verse 23

All that Christ endured and went through He did not sin or stop being perfect.

He kept entrusting His Father in heaven.

7 He was oppressed and afflicted,

Yet He did not open His mouth;

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

So He did not open His mouth. Isaiah 53:7

Verse 24

He died for us on the cross so we would live a righteous life. 

By the wounds that Christ endured we were healed of our sins.

4 However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself bore,

And our pains that He carried;

Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,

Struck down by God, and humiliated. Isaiah 53:4

Verse 25

Straying like sheep refers to that they were still sinning.

Turn to the shepherd is Christ.

Guardian refers to the protector of Souls.

God will protect our souls.

All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,

Each of us has turned to his own way;

But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all

To fall on Him. Isaiah 53:6