30 Bible Verses about Imitating

Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The person who does what is good is from God. The person who does what is evil has never seen God.

This is, in fact, what you were called to do, because: The Messiah also suffered for you and left an example for you to follow in his steps.

So be imitators of God, as his dear children.

Join together in imitating me, brothers, and pay close attention to those who live by the example we have set for you.

For it is written, "You must be holy, because I am holy."

Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continuously.

Then Jesus called the crowd to himself along with his disciples and told them, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continuously,

Then he told all of them, "If anyone wants to come with me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross every day, and follow me continuously,

I've set an example for you, so that you may do as I have done to you.

Place my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble, and you will find rest for your souls,

I'm giving you a new commandment"to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and do not obey your flesh and its desires.

Imitate me, as I do the Messiah.

So I urge you to imitate me.

Likewise, keep practicing these things: what you have learned, received, heard, and seen in me. Then the God of peace will be with you.

It is not as though we did not have that right, but we wanted to give you an example to follow.

For you yourselves know what you must do to imitate us. We never lived in idleness among you.

You became imitators of us and of the Lord. In spite of a great deal of suffering, you welcomed the word with the joy that the Holy Spirit produces.

Then, instead of being lazy, you will imitate those who are inheriting the promises through faith and patience.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in union with the Messiah Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from the people of your own country as they did from those Jews

You are not to follow the majority in doing wrong, and you are not to testify in a lawsuit so as to follow the majority and pervert justice.

after they have been destroyed in your sight, be careful not to be ensnared as they were. Otherwise, you will seek their gods and ask yourselves, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.'