John 13:15
For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done to you ye also should do.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
In Context
14If I then, the Lord and the teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash each other's feet.
Cross References
Romans 15:5Now may the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to think the same way among each other, in accord with Christ Jesus,
1 Peter 2:21For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.
1 John 2:6He who claims to abide in him he also ought so to walk just as that man walked.
Matthew Henry on John 13:2-18
Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet; Necessity of Obedience. 1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. 2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; 3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; 4 He riseth from… Read the whole commentary →