Deliverance goes before him, and prepares a pathway for him.
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TSK · 1 Peter 2:21
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Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Following Jesus Then Jesus called the crowd, along with his disciples, and said to them,“If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
For I have given you an example– you should do just as I have done for you.
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying,“This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”
Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,
For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.
But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.