^{21 Ref} This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:

^{22 Ref} Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth:

^{23 Ref} To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness:

^{24 Ref} He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

^{21 Ref} For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

^{22 Ref} Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

^{23 Ref} Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

^{24 Ref} Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.