Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Peter 2:21
Hereunto are ye — Christians. Called — To suffer wrongfully. Leaving you an example — When he went to God. That ye might follow his steps — Of innocence and patience.
Hereunto are ye — Christians. Called — To suffer wrongfully. Leaving you an example — When he went to God. That ye might follow his steps — Of innocence and patience.
1 PETER 2:21 e;paqen {A} The reading e;paqen, which is strongly supported by î72 A B Cvid 33 81 614 1739 itar, t, z vg syrh copsa, bo, fay vid, was replaced in other witnesses (including a...
Verse 21. _HEREUNTO WERE YE CALLED_] Ye were called to a state of suffering when ye were called to be Christians; for the world cannot endure the yoke of Christ, and they that will live godly in Chris...
FOR EVEN HEREUNTO WERE YE CALLED - Such a spirit is required by the very nature of your Christian vocation; you were called into the church in order that you might evince it. See the notes at 1 Thessa...
III. CHRIST THE PATTERN FOR HIS SAINTS CHAPTER 2:11-3:9 _ 1. Abstinence and submission (1 Peter 2:11)_ 2. Christ the pattern for those who suffer (1 Peter 2:18) 3. Glorifying Christ in the marriage...
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...
EVEN HEREUNT. = un to (App-104.) this. CHRIST. App-98. FOR. App-104. US. All the texts read "you". LEAVING. Greek. _hupolimpano._ Only here. EXAMPLE. Greek. _hupogrammos._ Only here. FOLLOW. dil...
_For even hereunto were ye called_ The thoughts of the Apostle travel from the teaching of Christ which he had heard to the life which he had witnessed. The very calling to be a disciple involved the...
B. SOCIAL DUTIES. 1 Peter 2:13 to 1 Peter 3:12 13 This warfare against heathen principles of living does not mean the subversion of the necessary bonds of society. Rather it deepens and intensifies...
ΕἸΣ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ ἘΚΛΉΘΗΤΕ. The call to follow Christ is not only to imitate Him in well-doing but also to share His sufferings, cf. 1 Peter 5:10; Matthew 16:24; 1 Thessalonians 3:3;...
ΤΟΫΤΟ (G3778) это; то есть выносливость и терпение перед лицом плохого обращения, которое вы не заслужили (Kelly), ΈΚΛΉΘΗΤΕ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΚΑΛΈΩ (G2564) звать. Богословский _pass._ означает, чт...
DISCOURSE: 2397 HOW TO BEAR INJURIES 1 Peter 2:19. 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 fa...
FOR EVEN HEREUNTO WERE YE CALLED— That is, "You were called to suffer for righteousness' sake, when ye became the disciples of Jesus." See Matthew 5:10; Matthew 5:48; Matthew 16:24;...
_2. TOWARD MASTERS 2:18-25_ 1 Peter 2:18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. _Expanded Translation_ You domestic serva...
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Christ's example a proof of 1 Peter 2:20, end. HEREUNTO - to the pati...
VERSE 21. FOR EVEN HEREUNTO WERE YE CALLED. Suffering for well-doing, when Peter wrote, seems to have been the experience of all, and it was to be expected. Believers had been warned, and are now warn...
21 Following in the footprints left by our Lord while He was on earth is often taken as the ideal of human deportment for believers in Christ. And so it is-for the Circumcision, to whom Peter writes....
2:21 model (g-18) A copy, as we say, to write from....
Jesus did nothing wrong, yet he suffered. ‘A model for you to copy’ describes the way that a person learned to write. He copied the teacher’s writing. Christians learn how to behave when they copy wha...
A servant is someone who works for someone else. This other person pays the servants for their work. These verses are for all people who work for an employer. Christians should behave better than othe...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Therefore stop all evil behaviour. Do not cheat people. Do not pretend to be better than you are. Do not be jealous. Stop saying bad th...
FOR EVEN HEREUNTO WERE YE CALLED. — Namely, to the combination of suffering and well-doing. To this they “were called” by the Gospel which St. Paul had preached to them; it ought not to be a surprise...
CHAPTER 5 CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1 THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to dispute, and that devout Christians have found...
CHAPTER 8 CHRISTIAN SERVICE 1 Peter 2:18 THE Gospel history shows very clearly that during our Lord's lifetime His followers were drawn largely from the ranks of the poor. It was fitting that He who...
εἰς τοῦτο, _sc._ to do well and to suffer, if need be, without flinching, as Christ did. ἐκλήθητε, _sc._ by God; _cf._ διὰ τὴν συνείδησιν θεοῦ. ἔπαθεν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, 1 Peter 2:22 supplies the essential po...
FOLLOWING THE SHEPHERD OF SOULS 1 Peter 2:18 The argument from this point seems to be: Since you have been redeemed, live worthily of your heavenly calling in relation to your fellow-believers, to Go...
In order to obey the injunctions, those to whom Peter writes are urged to put away all such things as are contrary to the spirit of love. In order to do this they will long for the sustenance of the W...
PATIENTLY SUFFERING FOR THE MASTER Peter knew that in Christ, all men are equal (Galatians 3:28-29). However, that did not change the obligation a Christian would have to those over him. Even slaves w...
(23) For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an (g) example, that ye should follow his steps: (23) He alleviates the grievousness of servanthood, while he sho...
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: (22) Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: (23) Who, when...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
_NATURAL FAILINGS AND SPECIAL GRACES_ ‘For even hereunto were ye called’ 1 Peter 2:21 There is always something very interesting in seeing what kind of men God chooses to send His messages to us by...
_THE PURPOSE OF THE INCARNATION_ ‘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 foun...
_THE EXALTED CHRIST_ ‘Christ also suffered for us … the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.’ 1 Peter 2:21 The Head of the Church is exalted to heaven, and we His members are called upon to look up t...
21_For even hereunto were ye called _For though his discourse was respecting servants, yet this passage ought not to be confined to that subject. For the Apostle here reminds all the godly in common a...
Thus cleansed therefore and born of the word, they were to put off all fraud, hypocrisy, envy, slander; and, as new-born babes, to seek for this milk of the understanding, in order to grow thereby (fo...
FOR EVEN HEREUNTO WERE YE CALLED,.... Both to well doing, of which none but those who are called with an holy and effectual calling are capable; and which they are fitted for, and are under obligation...
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Ver. 21. _Leaving us an example_] Gr. υπογραμμον, a copy or pattern. Chr...
_For even hereunto_ Namely, to suffer wrongfully, and to bear such treatment with patience and meekness; _are ye_ Christians _called; because Christ_ Whose followers you profess to be, pure and spotle...
HEREUNTO WERE YE CALLED; to exercise a kind and forgiving spirit when injured, and thus honor Christ, who, when injured, manifested such a spirit. Isaiah 53:7-9; ACTS 8:32....
FOR EVEN HEREUNTO WERE YE CALLED, BECAUSE CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED FOR US, LEAVING US AN EXAMPLE, THAT YE SHOULD FOLLOW HIS STEPS;...
The inspiring example of Christ:...
Ch.2: 1 Timothy 6 Since the Word of God is the solid foundation of all, eternal blessing for us, it surely follows that we should gladly lay aside all that is contrary to It. Indeed, these evils liste...
FOR US: Some read, for you...
_ 1 Peter 2:21 ‘For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps,'_ ‘FOR YOU HAVE BEEN CALLED FOR THIS PURPOSE' -‘In...
18-25 Servants in those days generally were slaves, and had heathen masters, who often used them cruelly; yet the apostle directs them to be subject to the masters placed over them by Providence, wit...
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, re...
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians For He has set us this example[53] Cyprian Treatise IX On the Advantage of Patience lays it down in his epistle, and says, "Christ suffered for us, leaving yo...
1 Peter 2:21 For G1063 to G1519 this G5124 called G2564 (G5681) because G3754 Christ G5547 also G2532 suffered...
‘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 calli...
1 Peter 2:21. FOR UNTO THIS WERE YE CALLED. Patient endurance of undeserved suffering should be deemed no strange thing (cf. 1 Peter 4:12). Painful as it was, it was involved in their Christian vocati...
The household is next dealt with as an institution obviously included under the ‘every ordinance of man' (1 Peter 2:13). And in the house the duty of servants is first declared. The bond-servant forme...
FOR HEREUNTO WERE YE CALLED (εις τουτο γαρ εκληθητε). First aorist indicative of καλεω, to call. They were called to suffer without flinching (Hort), if need be.BECAUSE (οτ). The fact that Christ...
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...
1 Peter 2:21 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, o...
Peter is very practical in his Epistles. In the early days of the faith, Christians occupied a far more difficult and dangerous position than they do today. They were few in number, and greatly despis...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: Ha...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,_ Putting these evil things right away from you, having nothing further to do with...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to holiness and growth in view of Christ's great sacrifice. Christ's vicarious sufferings. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is the proper and necessar...
1 Peter 2:4. _To whom coming as to a living stone._ The jews boasted of their temple, an undisputed blessing. But when the christians fled from Jerusalem, they took the true, the living temple with th...
IT WAS TO THIS. "It is part of being a Christian to suffer for doing good!" CHRIST HIMSELF. "Christ-on-the-cross is our example! If the sinless Christ would suffer for our sins, surely we can endure u...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 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 ma...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 2:1 WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE. Those who would wear the white robe of regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments (Zechariah 3:3) of the old carnal life. So St. Paul bids us put...
Wherefore 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....
1 Corinthians 11:1; 1 John 2:6; 1 John 3:16; 1 Peter 1:20; 1 Peter 2:24
Leaving [υ π ο λ ι μ π α ν ω ν]. Only here in the New Testament. An example [υ π ο γ ρ α μ μ ο ν]. Only here in the New Testament. A graphic word, meaning a copy set by writing - masters for their pu...
Observe here, two farther arguments to excite and move Christians to patience under unjust sufferings. 1. HEREUNTO, says the apostle, WERE YE CALLED, that is, by your profession of Christianity: reli...