30 Bible Verses about Imitating

Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."

Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

And he said to all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me--practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you,

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,

You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?--that I also may do the same.'