Peter says Jesus “bore our sins in his body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24). He links this to dying to sin and living to righteousness, adding, “By his wounds you have been healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
In 1 Peter 2:21–25 the writer tells mistreated believers that their calling includes enduring unjust suffering, because Christ suffered and left a pattern to trace. Christ is described as innocent and truthful, yet he refused to retaliate, instead entrusting his case to God’s just judgment. This paragraph sits inside a larger call to live honorably among outsiders and within social hierarchies, even when those structures produce mistreatment (2:11–3:12).
This paragraph ties the readers’ unjust suffering to Jesus’ own suffering. The text explicitly says they were “called” into a path that includes endurance, and it anchors that calling in Christ’s story: he suffered “for us,” left an “example,” and his life is portrayed as innocent and truthful (no sin, no deceit).
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with 1 Peter 2:24, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.