What Does the Bible Say About Example?

“For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”

“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.”

“Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.”

“And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.”

“When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.”

“And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.”

“I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.”

“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:”

“Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.”

“For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, with: Heb. in strength of hand”

“And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: imagination: or, stubbornness”

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; point: Heb. nail”

“Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.”

“But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:”

“And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. punish: Heb. visit upon reward: Heb. cause to return”

“Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.”

“And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.”

“Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.”

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

“Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

“Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,”

“But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:”

“And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.”

“For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

“Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.”

“For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.”

“Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.”

“If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.”

“For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.”

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.”

“If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.”

“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”

“I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

“Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.”

“For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.”

“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”

“Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: according to: or, after the example of”

“That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

“Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.”

“This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,”

“Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;”

“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.”

“And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him. forbearing: or, moderating your: some read, both your and their Master”

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:”

“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:”

“But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:”

“And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. fashion: or habit”

“Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.”

“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”

“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. quarrel: or, complaint”

“But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:”

“In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,”

“Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.”

“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. author: or, beginner”

“For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”

“Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. have the rule: or, are the guides”

“Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.”

“Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”

“For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.”

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”