Thematic Bible: Example

Therefore, my Christian brothers, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Messenger and High Priest whom we profess to follow, Verse Concepts

Now I appeal to you in person, by the gentleness and fairness of Christ, I, Paul, who am so "condescending when face to face with you, but so courageous toward you when far away!" Verse Concepts

Put on my yoke, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, Verse Concepts

Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me. Verse Concepts

For I have set you an example, in order that you too may practice what I have done to you. Verse Concepts

May God, who gives men patient endurance and encouragement, grant you such harmony with one another, in accordance with the standard which Christ Jesus sets, Verse Concepts

Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had. Verse Concepts

forbearing one another and freely forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; just as the Lord has freely forgiven you, so must you also do. Verse Concepts

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God. Verse Concepts

Indeed, it was to this kind of living that you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow His footsteps. Verse Concepts

You know yourselves how you ought to follow my example; for I was not a shirker when I was with you; Verse Concepts

In everything I showed you that by working hard like this we must help those who are weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It makes one happier to give than to get.'" Verse Concepts

Continue to be an example in wholesome instructions which you learned from me, in the faith and love that come through union with Christ Jesus. Verse Concepts

Follow my example, brothers, and keep your eyes on those who practice living by the pattern we have set you. Verse Concepts

So I beg you, make it your habit to follow my example, Verse Concepts

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another. Verse Concepts

You must follow my example, just as I myself am following Christ's. Verse Concepts

Practice the things you learned, received, and heard from me, things that you saw me do, and then the God who gives us peace will be with you. Verse Concepts

So, dearly beloved, since you have been forewarned, you must always be on your guard against being led astray by the errors of lawless men, and so against falling away from your present firmness; Verse Concepts

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Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it -- Verse Concepts

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So let us do our best to be admitted to that rest, so that not one of us may fail through the same sort of disobedience. Verse Concepts

on being reminded of your genuine faith, a faith that first found a home in the heart of your grandmother Lois, then in the heart of your mother Eunice, and now in yours too, I am sure. Verse Concepts

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You must not forget your former leaders, for it was they who brought you the message of God. Consider how they closed their lives; imitate their faith. Verse Concepts

Let no one think little of you because you are young, but always set an example for believers, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity. Verse Concepts

and not as domineering over those in your charge but proving yourselves models for the flock to imitate; Verse Concepts

In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching, let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.

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And you followed the example set by us and by the Lord, because you welcomed our message with a joy inspired by the Holy Spirit, in spite of the painful persecutions it brought you, so that you became examples to all the believers in Macedonia and Greece. (1:7) For the message of the Lord has rung out from you, not only in Macedonia and Greece, but everywhere the report of your faith in God has been told, so that we need never mention it.

As an example of ill-treatment and patience, brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord. See how we call those who thus endured happy! You have heard how patiently Job endured and have seen how the Lord finally blessed him, because the Lord is tenderhearted and merciful.

Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul. Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day. For the Lord's sake submit to all human authority; to the emperor as supreme, read more.
and to governors as sent by Him to punish those who do evil and to reward those who do right. For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God. Show honor to everyone. Practice love for the brotherhood; practice reverence to God and honor to the Emperor. You house-servants must be submissive to your masters and show them perfect respect, not only to those who are kind and fair but also to those who are cruel. For it is pleasing in the sight of God for one to bear his sorrows though suffering innocently. For what credit is it to bear it patiently, if you do wrong and are beaten for it? But if you do right and patiently suffer for it, it is pleasing in the sight of God. Indeed, it was to this kind of living that you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow His footsteps. He never committed a sin, and deceit was never found on His lips. Although He was abused, He never retorted; although He continued to suffer, He never threatened, but committed His case to Him who judges justly. He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed, for once you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of Your souls.

For this is the way the pious women of olden times, who set their hope on God, used to adorn themselves. They were submissive to their husbands, as Sarah, for example, obeyed Abraham and called him master. You have become true daughters of hers, if you practice doing right and cease from every fear.

By faith Abel offered a sacrifice more acceptable to God than Cain did, for by it he was approved as an upright man, since God approved him for the offering he made; and by it he still continues to speak, though dead. Verse Concepts

As an example of ill-treatment and patience, brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord. Verse Concepts

For I have set you an example, in order that you too may practice what I have done to you. Verse Concepts

Indeed, it was to this kind of living that you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow His footsteps. Verse Concepts

Not that I have no right to be supported, but to make myself an example for you to follow. Verse Concepts

Let no one think little of you because you are young, but always set an example for believers, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity. Verse Concepts

In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching, Verse Concepts

In everything I showed you that by working hard like this we must help those who are weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It makes one happier to give than to get.'" Verse Concepts

Continue to be an example in wholesome instructions which you learned from me, in the faith and love that come through union with Christ Jesus. Verse Concepts

Yet, mercy was shown me for the very purpose that in my case as the foremost of sinners Jesus might display His perfect patience, to make me an example to those who in the future might believe on Him to obtain eternal life. Verse Concepts

Follow my example, brothers, and keep your eyes on those who practice living by the pattern we have set you. Verse Concepts

So I beg you, make it your habit to follow my example, Verse Concepts

You must follow my example, just as I myself am following Christ's. Verse Concepts

Practice the things you learned, received, and heard from me, things that you saw me do, and then the God who gives us peace will be with you. Verse Concepts

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another. To unmarried people and to widows I would say this: It would be a fine thing for them to remain single, as I am.

You know yourselves how you ought to follow my example; for I was not a shirker when I was with you; I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. Not that I have no right to be supported, but to make myself an example for you to follow. read more.
For when I was with you, I gave you this direction, "If a person refuses to work, he must not be allowed to eat."

So you, my followers, ought to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is." Verse Concepts

You slave-owners, too, must maintain the same attitude toward your slaves, and stop threatening them, for you know that their real Lord and yours is in heaven, and that He never shows partiality. Verse Concepts

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Continue to be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Verse Concepts

After saying this he took some bread and thanked God for it before them all; then he broke it in pieces and began to eat it. Then they all were cheered and took something to eat themselves.

Yes, to keep from growing weary and fainthearted, just think of the examples set by Him who has endured so great opposition aimed at Him by sinful men! Verse Concepts