²⁰ For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if ^(A)when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.

Christ Is Our Example

²¹ For ^(B)you have been called for this purpose, ^(C)because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you ^(D)an example, so that you would follow in His steps,

³⁸ And ^(A)the one who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

Keep Fervent in Your Love

4 Therefore, since ^(A)Christ has ^[a]suffered in the flesh, ^(B)arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because ^(C)the one who has ^[b]suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, ^2 (D)so as to live ^(E)the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the ^(F)will of God.