John 13:15

For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done for you, so also should you do.

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

In Context

14Therefore, if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash the feet of one another.

16Amen, amen, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his Lord, and the apostle is not greater than he who sent him.

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Cross References

Romans 15:5So may the God of patience and solace grant you to be of one mind toward one another, in accord with Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 2:21For you have been called to this because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in his footsteps.

1 John 2:6Whoever declares himself to remain in him, ought to walk just as he himself 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 →

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