Christ’s suffering: Our Example

Philippians 2:5-8 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, [or, “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus” (NIV)] who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

Matthew 10:22-25 You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved. But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next . . .
A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

John 13:15-16, 34; 15:13 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him. . . . A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. . . . Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

1 John 2:6; 3:16 he who says he remains in him [Christ] ought himself also to walk just like he walked. . . . By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

(Emphasis mine.)