1 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore, I beg you, be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
In Context
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:1Be imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.
Philippians 4:9All the things that you have learned and accepted and heard and seen in me, do these. And so shall the God of peace be with you.
2 Thessalonians 3:9It was not as if we had no authority, but this was so that we might present ourselves as an example to you, in order to imitate us.
1 Peter 5:3not so as to dominate by means of the clerical state, but so as to be formed into a flock from the heart.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 4:15-17
Paul's Tenderness and Affection. ( a. d. 57.) 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. 15 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. 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. Here Paul challenges their regard to him as their father. He tells them, 1. That what he had written was not for their reproach, but admonition; not with the gall of an enemy, but the bowels of a… Read the whole commentary →