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20 For what credit is there in bearing up under a beating you deserve for doing something wrong? But if you bear up under punishment, even though you have done what is right, God looks on it with favor. 21 Indeed, this is what you were called to; because the Messiah too suffered, on your behalf, leaving an example so that you should follow in his steps.

22 “He committed no sin,
nor was any deceit found on his lips.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:22 Isaiah 53:9

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