30 Bible Verses about Imitating
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Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
For even to this were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them who walk so as ye have us for an example.
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Then said Jesus to 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 to him with his disciples also, he said to them, Whoever 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 from me: for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.
A new commandment I give to you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the lusts of flesh.
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace will be with you.
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves a pattern to you to follow us.
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit:
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews:
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou 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 to 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 ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
Imitating Others
1 Corinthians 11:1Be ye 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 heathen that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Not Imitating Evil
Exodus 23:24Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
Not Imitating Good
1 Samuel 8:3And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
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