9 Bible Verses about Imitating Jesus

It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps.

never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man, and each with an eye to the interests of others as well as to his own. Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus.read more.
Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.

But we all mirror the glory of the Lord with face unveiled, and so we are being transformed into the same likeness as himself, passing from one glory to another ??for this comes of the Lord the Spirit.

Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe, he lay down again. "Do you know," he said to them, "what I have been doing to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am. Well, if I have washed your feet, I who am your Lord and Teacher, you are bound to wash one another's feet;read more.
for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you.

I give you a new command, to love one another ??as I have loved you, you are to love one another.

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love. If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love. I have told you this, that my joy may be within you and your joy complete.

Copy me, as I copy Christ.

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.