1 Corinthians 4:16
16I urge you, then, abe imitators of me.1 Corinthians 10:32-33
32 bGive no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to cthe church of God, 33just as dI try to please everyone in everything I do, enot seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.1 Corinthians 11:1
1 fBe imitators of me, as I am of Christ.Philippians 4:9
9What you have learned and greceived and heard and seen hin me—practice these things, and ithe God of peace will be with you.1 Thessalonians 1:6
6And jyou became imitators of us kand of the Lord, for lyou received the word in much affliction, mwith the njoy of the Holy Spirit,1 Thessalonians 2:10-14
10You are witnesses, and oGod also, phow holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. 11For you know how, qlike a father with his children, 12we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and rcharged syou to walk in a manner worthy of God, twho calls you into his own kingdom and glory.13And uwe also thank God constantly ▼
▼Or without ceasing
for this, that when you received wthe word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it xnot as the word of men ▼▼The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women
but as what it really is, the word of God, zwhich is at work in you believers. 14For you, brothers, aabecame imitators of abthe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For acyou suffered the same things from your own countrymen adas they did from the Jews, ▼▼The Greek word Ioudaioi can refer to Jewish religious leaders and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time
2 Thessalonians 3:7
7For you yourselves know afhow you ought to imitate us, because agwe were not idle when we were with you,2 Thessalonians 3:9
9It was ahnot because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves aian example to imitate.1 Timothy 4:12
12 ajLet no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers akan example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
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