Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God: Here was a case of not only suffering because of righteousness but of a righteous one suffering for the unrighteous. The just suffered for the unjust: in this great act we have an excellent definition of redemption.