30 Bible Verses about Imitating
Most Relevant Verses
Beloved, do not imitate the evil, but the good. The man doing right is of God. The man doing wrong has not seen God.
For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.
Brothers, become fellow-imitators of me, and watch those who so walk, just as ye have us for an example.
because it is written, Become ye holy, since I am holy.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man wants to come behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
And having called in the multitude with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wants to follow behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
And he said to all, If any man wants to come behind me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye will find rest for your souls.
A new commandment I give to you, that ye should love each other, just as I loved you, so that ye also should love each other.
But clothe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no forethought for lusts of the flesh.
Become ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
And what ye learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.
Not because we have no right, but that we might give ourselves an example to you, in order to imitate us.
For ye yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us. Because we did not act disorderly among you,
And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of Holy Spirit,
so that ye may not become lazy, but imitators of those who, through faith and longsuffering, inherit the promises.
For ye, brothers, became imitators of the congregations of God, which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because ye also suffered the same things by your own countrymen, just as also they by the Jews.
Thou shall not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shall thou speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort [justice],
take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before thee, and that thou not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? Even so I will do likewise.
Topics on Imitating
Imitating Good Kings
2 Chronicles 11:17So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong three years. For they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.
Imitating Good People
Hebrews 13:7Remember those who lead you, men who spoke the word of God to you, of whom, carefully observing the outcome of their conduct, imitate the faith--
Imitating Jesus
1 Peter 2:21For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.
Imitating Others
1 Corinthians 11:1Become ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Imitating Wicked Kings
1 Kings 15:34And he did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
Imitating Wicked People
2 Kings 17:15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them. And they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, c
Not Imitating Evil
Exodus 23:24Thou shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works, but thou shall utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces.
Not Imitating Good
1 Samuel 8:3And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
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