10 Bible Verses about Examples, Purpose Of
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and reducing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, condemned them to final destruction, making them an example for all who in future should live ungodly;
Let us then earnestly endeavour to enter into that rest, lest any person fall after the same example of unbelief.
Now these things were examples for us, that we might not be coveters of evil things, as they also coveted. Neither be ye idolaters as some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to sport themselves." Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them also committed, and in one day fell twenty-three thousand.read more.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and perished by the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them as examples, but they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages are come.
If therefore I have washed your feet, though the Lord and the Master; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
For so in times of old the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands;
My brethren, take a pattern for suffering affliction, and patience from the prophets, who have spoken to you in the name of the Lord.
For what glory would there be, if committing faults, and being buffeted, ye suffered patiently? but if, when ye behave well, yet suffer, ye bear it patiently, this is graciously accepted of God. For hereunto have ye been called, because Christ also hath suffered for you, leaving you a pattern, that ye should follow his steps; who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
Be ye imitators, brethren, of me, and eye attentively those who walk so as ye have us for an example.
Now these things were examples for us, that we might not be coveters of evil things, as they also coveted.
Now all these things happened unto them as examples, but they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages are come.
