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For whatcredit is there if, when you sin and are harshlytreated, you endure it with patience? But if1when you do what is right and suffer for it you patientlyendure it, this finds favor with God.
Christ Is Our Example
21 For 2you have been called for this purpose, 3sinceChristalsosuffered for you, leaving you 4an example for you to follow in His steps,
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WHO5COMMITTEDNOSIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEITFOUND IN HIS MOUTH;
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and while being 6reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He utterednothreats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judgesrighteously;
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and He Himself7bore our sins in His body on the 8cross, so that we 9might die to sin and live to righteousness; for 10by His wounds you were 11healed.
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For you were 12continually strayinglikesheep, but now you have returned to the 13Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.