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20 What good does it do if, when you sin, you patiently receive punishment for it? But if you suffer for doing good and receive it patiently, you have God’s approval. 21 This is, in fact, what you were called to do, because:

The Messiah[a] also suffered for you
    and left an example for you
        to follow in his steps.
22 “He never sinned,
    and he never told a lie.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:21 Or Christ
  2. 1 Peter 2:22 Lit. and no deceit was found in his mouth; cf. Isa 53:9