30 Bible Verses about Imitating
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Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that does good is of God: but he that does evil has not seen God.
For even to this were you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps:
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them who so walk, since you have us for an example.
Because it is written, You will be holy; for I am holy.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.
Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Those things, which you have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Not because we have not that right, but to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us.
For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
And you became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit:
That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
For you, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you testify in a dispute to follow after a crowd to pervert judgment:
Take heed to yourself that you are not snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I 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 three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
Imitating Good People
Hebrews 13:7Remember them who have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their manner of life.
Imitating Jesus
1 Peter 2:21For even to this were you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps:
Imitating Others
1 Corinthians 11:1Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Imitating Wicked Kings
1 Kings 15:34And he did evil in the sight of the 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 against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Not Imitating Evil
Exodus 23:24You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but you shall utterly overthrow them, and completely break down their images.
Not Imitating Good
1 Samuel 8:3And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
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