1 Corinthians 11:1
You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
BSB
ASV
Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
KJV
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Be ye followers of me - Imitate my example in the matter now under discussion. As I deny myself; as I seek to give no offence to anyone; as I endeavor not to alarm the prejudices of others, but in all things to seek their salvation, so do you. This verse belongs to the previous chapter, and should not have been separated from it. It is the close of the discussion there. Even as I also am of Christ - I make Christ my example.
Let us, therefore, maintain so much the more carefully this doctrine of Paul -- that we are to follow men, provided they take Christ as their grand model, (prototupon,) that the examples of the saints may not tend to lead us away from Christ, but rather to direct us to him.
He encourages neither implicit faith nor obedience. He would be followed himself no further than he followed Christ. Christ's pattern is a copy without a blot; so is no man's else.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Hebrews 6:12Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.
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Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
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You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
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Philippians 3:17Join one another in following my example, brothers, and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you.
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Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me, put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
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Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
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not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
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1 Corinthians 4:16Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
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Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
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Join one another in following my example, brothers, and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you.
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1 Thessalonians 1:6And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.
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And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
