The Example of Christ's Suffering

18 Servants, submit to your masters with complete respect, not only to those who are good and gentle but also to those who are cruel. 19 For there is favor upon anyone who endures pain while suffering unjustly for the sake of conscience toward God. 20 What credit do you get if you endure when you sin and are beaten for it? But if you endure when you do good and suffer for it, this finds favor with God. 21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also [fn]suffered for us, leaving an example so that you could follow in his footsteps. 22 He committed no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten but entrusted himself to the one who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to our sins and live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of [fn]your souls.