15 Bible Verses about Imitating Good People
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Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the word of God to you; look back upon the close of their career, and copy their faith.
For you know quite well how to copy us; we did not loaf in your midst,
Not that we have no right to such support; it was simply to give you a pattern to copy.
Copy me, brothers, one and all of you, and notice those who live by the example you get from me.
Practise also what you have learned and received from me, what you heard me say and what you saw me do; then the God of peace will be with you.
and you started to copy us and the Lord, welcoming the word, though it brought you heavy trouble, with a joy inspired by the holy Spirit.
Now you have followed my teaching, my practice, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my stedfastness,
for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews,
so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.
He said, "The man who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Then go and do the same."
Ought you not to have had mercy on your fellow-servant, as I had on you?'
and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.
They answered him, "Abraham is our father." "If you are Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then do as Abraham did;
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