19for this [is] gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously;
20for what renown [is it], if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure [it]? but if, doing good and suffering [for it], ye do endure, this [is] gracious with God,
21for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,
22who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,
23who being reviled -- was not reviling again, suffering -- was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,
24who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
25for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.
