King James Version
1 Corinthians 4:16 in the King James Version says “Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.” — study this verse from 1 Corinthians chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.”
1 Corinthians 4:16 · KJV
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I beseech”
G3870to call near, i.e., invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)
“be ye”
G1096to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e., (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
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