That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.

Brethren, vie with one another in imitating me, and carefully observe those who follow the example which we have set you.

And you followed the pattern set you by us and by the Master, after you had received the Message amid severe persecution, and yet with the joy which the Holy Spirit gives,

This was not because we had not a claim upon you, but it arose from a desire to set you an example--for you to imitate us.

so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.

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Let each of us endeavour to please his fellow Christian, aiming at a blessing calculated to build him up.

Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children.

each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also.

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Let each of us endeavour to please his fellow Christian, aiming at a blessing calculated to build him up.

I entreat you therefore to become like me.

Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus.