'Example' in the Bible

“The Lord shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father David’s earlier days and did not seek the Baals,

For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.

so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,

not because we do not have the right to this, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example.

Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.

in all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified,

Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.

As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps,

and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.