16 Bible Verses about disciples, characteristics of

Be ye imitators of me, as I also of Christ.

For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:

If ye love me, keep my commands.

Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, and believe in me.

And whoever takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me.

And whoever lifts not his cross, and comes after me, cannot be my disciple.

But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out. So that ye might be sons of your Father, which in the heavens: for he makes his sun rise upon evil and good, and rains on the just and unjust.

So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.

Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any wish to come after me, let him deny himself absolutely, and lift up his cross, and follow me.

And having looked round upon those sitting round about him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whoever should do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it remain not in the vine; so neither ye, if ye remain not in me.

Lift up my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.

And he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you the fishermen of men.

Therefore, having gone, disciple all nations; immersing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:

But ye shall receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses to me also in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the last of the earth.