for I have given you an example that, as I have done to you, ye should do also.

Be imitators all together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;

Let us therefore use diligence to enter into that rest, that no one may fall after the same example of not hearkening to the word.

Take as an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.

For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps: