²⁰ But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.^{(A) 21} To this^(B) you were called,^(C) because Christ suffered for you,^(D) leaving you an example,^(E) that you should follow in his steps.

²³ When they hurled their insults at him,^(H) he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats.^(I) Instead, he entrusted himself^(J) to him who judges justly.^{(K) 24} “He himself bore our sins”^(L) in his body on the cross,^(M) so that we might die to sins^(N) and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”^{(O) 25} For “you were like sheep going astray,”^[b](P) but now you have returned to the Shepherd^(Q) and Overseer of your souls.^(R)