'Imitate' in the Bible

For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you,

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

Remember your leaders, who spoke God's message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.