'Model' in the Bible

Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;

Be imitators all together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;

The things which you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things [in daily life], and the God [who is the source] of peace and well-being will be with you.

As a result, you became a model for all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

not because we do not have the right to this, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example.

Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

And in all things show yourself to be an example of good works, with purity in doctrine [having the strictest regard for integrity and truth], dignified,

They serve as a pattern and foreshadowing of [what has its true existence and reality in] the heavenly things (sanctuary). For when Moses was about to erect the tabernacle, he was warned by God, saying, “See that you make it all [exactly] according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.”

For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us.

For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps: