1 Peter 2:20-22 ASV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:21

‘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 calling as Christians, for it was apart of their calling to participate in His sufferings. Christ had suffered for them. They should expect to have to suffer for the sake of the world. For they had been called to be an elect race and a holy people (1 Peter 2:9), and as such must expect to suffer, and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:22-23

‘Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered he threatened not; but committed himself to him who judges righteously,’ Let them in fact consider this, that although He was the sinless One, in whose mouth nothing of fault could be found (compare Isaiah 53:9), yet He was still reviled, and persecuted and made to suffer. And how did He then respond? Not by retaliating, but by not retaliating. When they reviled Him He did not... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:18-25

1 Peter 2:18-Lamentations : . 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 might put into his slavery the whole spirit of Jesus. With exquisite reminiscences of prophetic language and touches of personal experience the writer sketches Christ’ s life and death of ministry, which wrought righteousness and healing. So might their lives, thus... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 2:20

For what glory is it? What praise or glory do you get by it? Or, what great matter do you do? This interrogation hath the force of negation, but is to be understood comparatively; it is worthy of praise to suffer patiently, even when men suffer justly, but worthy of little in comparison of suffering patiently when unjustly. This is acceptable with God: this shows what is meant by thank-worthy, 1 Peter 2:19; and the apostle adds what kind of thanks or praise he intends, viz. not that which is of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 2:21

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, requires this of you. Also; there is an emphasis in this particle, it is as much as if he had said: Even Christ our Lord and Head hath suffered for us, and therefore we that are but his servants and members must not think to escape sufferings. For us; or, as in the margin, for you, which agrees with... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 2:22

i.e. There was no guile in his mouth; it is a Hebraism; to be found is the same as to be, and not to be found the same as not to be, Genesis 2:20; Isaiah 39:2; see Romans 7:10. This signifies Christ’s absolute perfection, in that he did not offend so much as with his mouth, James 3:2. The sense is, Christ was free from all manner of sin, and yet he suffered patiently; and therefore well may ye be content to suffer too, though wrongfully; seeing, though ye may be innocent in your sufferings, yet... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Peter 2:18-25

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES1 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 master specially irksome. Perhaps “the οἰκέται here addressed are domestic servants, who were more exposed to the bad temper of their masters than the servants in the field.” Froward.—Crooked. One who is unreasonably exacting, capricious, and cross-grained.1 Peter 2:19. Conscience toward God.—Better,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:20

1 Peter 2:20 Writing probably from Rome, certainly in one of the closing years of his life, St. Peter saw the great tendency of social and political circumstances around him towards that outbreak of violence against the worshippers of Christ which is known in history as the first persecution, in which he and St. Paul laid down their lives. He is anxious to prepare the Asiatic Christians for the trials which are before them. Then, as now, there were bad Christians who fell under the just... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:21

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 to man which implies the consciousness of a single defect. Read the lives of the great servants of God in the Old or New Testament of Abraham, of Moses, of Samuel, of David, of Elijah, of St. Peter, of St. Paul. They all confess sin. They all humble themselves before men. They implore the mercy of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:21-22

1 Peter 2:21-22 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, our salvation is the fruit of His whole obedience. This is apparent from the plan itself of salvation, as revealed to the enlightened mind of a Christian in the Scriptures of truth. It was necessary that the High-priest of our profession should be holy, harmless, undefiled; that of Him, the Victim... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:22-23

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:18-25

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 2:20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 2:21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 2:22

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Peter 2:18-25

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:20

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:21

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 2:21-22

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