10 Bible Verses about Examples, Purpose Of

and if he condemned by destruction the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, turning them into ashes, making them an example unto those that after should live without fear and reverence of God;

Let us therefore make haste to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Now these things became types of us, that we should not lust after evil things as they lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed and fell dead: in one day, twenty-three thousand.read more.
Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them also tempted and perished by the serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured and perished by the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them as types, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

If I then, the Lord and the Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who waited upon God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands,

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

For what glory is it if, when ye are buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is due to grace from God. Because for this were ye called: for the Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth,

Brethren, be imitators of me and consider those who so walk, as ye have us for a pattern.

Now these things became types of us, that we should not lust after evil things as they lusted.

Now all these things happened unto them as types, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.