10 Bible Verses about Examples, Purpose Of

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, He condemned them with an overthrow, setting an example to men intending to live ungodly.

Therefore let us labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.

And these things were our examples, that we should not be lusters after evil, as they also lusted. Nor should we be idolaters, even as some of them, as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.read more.
Nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted Him and were destroyed by serpents. Nor murmur as some of them also murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer. And all these things happened to them as examples; and it is written for our warning on whom the ends of the world have come.

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

For so once indeed the holy women hoping in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands;

My brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering ill, and of patience.

For what glory is it if you patiently endure while sinning and being buffeted? But if you suffer while doing good, and patiently endure, this is a grace from God. For you were not called to this? For Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps, He who did no sin, nor was guile found in His mouth,

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who walk this way, for you have us for a pattern.

And these things were our examples, that we should not be lusters after evil, as they also lusted.

And all these things happened to them as examples; and it is written for our warning on whom the ends of the world have come.