Example

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us--a pattern;

`For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ.

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

and ye--ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;

Elders who <FI>are<Fi> among you, I exhort, who <FI>am<Fi> a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker, — read the full passage →

Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

`Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men. — read the full passage →

And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who <FI>are<Fi> in the world--to the end he loved them. — read the full passage →

and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end, — read the full passage →

and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith--considering the issue of the behaviour--be imitating,

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;