So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord!’

But he said to them, ‘Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.’

So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”

You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
and the star of your god Rephan,
the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile” beyond Babylon.

You took up the tent of Moloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship;
and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

‘Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

“Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.

He wrote a letter as follows:

And he wrote a letter to this effect:

Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.

Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam who was a type of the one who was to come.

But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.

But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,

Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.

These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.

Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction on whom the end of the ages has come.

Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.

Brothers join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate.

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.

But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.

But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.

Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness

Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity dignity,

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: ‘See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.’

They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”

It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

For to this you have been called because Christ also suffered for you leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.

if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;

if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;

In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.