9 Bible Verses about Examples, Purpose Of

if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and reduced them to ashes, thus holding them up as a warning to all who would live ungodly;

Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed. And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances. Nor must we act licentiously, as some of them did, and fell in a single day, twenty-three thousand of them.read more.
Neither must we presume upon the patience of our Lord, as some of them presumed, and were destroyed by the serpents; nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel. Now these things were happening to them typically, but were written down for our admonition who stand at the meeting of the ages.

If then I have washed your feet, I the 'Master' and the 'Teacher', you also ought to wash one another's feet,

For in this way in the olden time the holy women also, who put their trust in God, used to adorn themselves. They were ever in submission to their own husbands;

Take, my brothers, for an example the suffering and the patience of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For this is your calling; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps; He committed no sin, Neither was guile found in his mouth.

Brothers, be comrades in imitating me, and study those whose life and walk is according to the pattern I have set you.

Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed.

Now these things were happening to them typically, but were written down for our admonition who stand at the meeting of the ages.