30 Bible Verses about Imitating
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Dearly beloved, imitate not evil, but good. He doing good is of God: and he doing evil has not seen God.
For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:
Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.
For it has been written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any wish to come after me, let him deny himself absolutely, and lift up his cross, and follow me.
And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wills to come after me, let him absolutely deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
And he said to all, If any one wish to come after me, let him deny himself, and lift up his cross daily and let him follow me.
Lift up my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.
A new command give I to you, That ye love one another: as I loved you, that ye also love one another.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not consideration for the flesh, for the passions.
Be ye imitators of me, as I also of Christ.
And what things ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these do; and the God of peace shall be with you.
Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us.
For ye yourselves know that ye ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;
And ye were imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much pressure, with joy of the Holy Spirit:
That ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them inheriting the promises by faith and longsnffering.
For ye, brethren, were imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things by your own race, as they also by the Jews:
Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice.
Watch to thyself lest thou shalt be snared after them after their being destroyed from before thee; and lest thou shalt seek to their gods, saying, How shall these nations serve their gods? and so will I do also.
Topics on Imitating
Imitating Good Kings
2 Chronicles 11:17And they will strengthen the kingdom of Judah, and make firm Rehoboam son of Solomon, for three years: for they went in the way of David and Solomon for three years.
Imitating Good People
Hebrews 13:7Remember them guiding you, who spake to you the word of God: of whom, observing narrowly the issue of the mode of life, imitate the faith:
Imitating Jesus
1 Peter 2:21For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:
Imitating Others
1 Corinthians 11:1Be ye imitators of me, as I also of Christ.
Imitating Wicked Kings
1 Kings 15:34And he will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and he will go in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sins which he caused Israel to sin.
Imitating Wicked People
2 Kings 17:15And they will reject his laws and his covenant which he cut out with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified in them; and they will go after vanity, and they will be vain, and after the nations which were round about them which Jehovah commanded them not to do as they.
Not Imitating Evil
Exodus 23:24Thou shalt not worship to their gods, and thou shalt not serve them, and thou shalt not do according to their works: for destroying, thou shalt destroy them, and breaking, thou shalt break in pieces their pillars.
Not Imitating Good
1 Samuel 8:3And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.
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