10 Bible Verses about Examples, Purpose Of

and if He condemned, by burning them to ashes, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, making them an example to godless people of what was coming to them,

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.

Now all these things occurred as warnings to us, to keep us from hankering after what is evil, in the ways they did. Now stop being idolaters, as some of them were, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance." Let us stop practicing immorality, as some of them did, and on one day twenty-three thousand fell dead.read more.
Let us stop trying the Lord's patience, as some of them did, and for it were destroyed by the snakes. You must stop grumbling, as some of them did, and for it were destroyed by the destroying angel. Those things continued to befall them as warnings to others, and they were written down for the purpose of instructing us, in whose lives the climax of the ages has been reached.

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

For this is the way the pious women of olden times, who set their hope on God, used to adorn themselves.

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

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.

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

Now all these things occurred as warnings to us, to keep us from hankering after what is evil, in the ways they did.

Those things continued to befall them as warnings to others, and they were written down for the purpose of instructing us, in whose lives the climax of the ages has been reached.