Reference: Example
Easton
of Christ (1Pe 2:21; Joh 13:15); of pastors to their flocks (Php 3:17; 2Th 3:9; 1Ti 4:12; 1Pe 5:3); of the Jews as a warning (Heb 4:11); of the prophets as suffering affliction (Jas 5:10).
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For I have given you this as an example, so that you should do [in your turn] what I have done to you.
Brethren, together follow my example and observe those who live after the pattern we have set for you.
Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness fell].
[As] an example of suffering and ill-treatment together with patience, brethren, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord [as His messengers].
For even to this were you called [it is inseparable from your vocation]. For Christ also suffered for you, leaving you [His personal] example, so that you should follow in His footsteps.