Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
20 For what credit is there if you endure the beatings you deserve for having done wrong? But if you endure suffering even when you have done right, God will bless you for it.
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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.
21 It was to this that God called you, for Christ himself suffered for you and left you an example, so that you would follow in his steps.
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To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
22 He committed no sin, and no one ever heard a lie come from his lips.
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“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
23 When he was insulted, he did not answer back with an insult; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but placed his hopes in God, the righteous Judge.
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When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.
24 Christ himself carried our sins in his body to the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness. It is by his wounds that you have been healed.
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“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
25 You were like sheep that had lost their way, but now you have been brought back to follow the Shepherd and Keeper of your souls.
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For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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