'Example' in the Bible

And [when they come] from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other [traditions] which they have received [and] hold fast to--[for example,] the washing of cups and pitchers and bronze kettles and dining couches.)

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

Now these [things] happened to those [people] as an example, but are written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Become fellow imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who walk in this way, just as you have us [as] an example.

so that you became an example to all those who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia,

not that we do not have the right, but so that we may give ourselves [as] an example to you, so that [you] may imitate us.

But because of this I was shown mercy, in order that in me foremost, Christ Jesus might demonstrate his total patience, for an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.

Let no one look down on your youth, but be an example for the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

concerning everything showing yourself [to be] an example of good deeds, in your teaching [demonstrating] soundness, dignity,

Brothers, take [as an] example of perseverance and endurance the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps,

and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having appointed [them] [as] an example for those who are going to be ungodly,

as Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns around them indulged in sexual immorality and {pursued unnatural desire} [in] the same way as these, are exhibited as an example [by] undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.