1 Corinthians 4:16

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

In Context

15For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.

17For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord; who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus; as I teach every where in every church.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:1Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

Philippians 4:9The things which you have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these do ye, and the God of peace shall be with you.

2 Thessalonians 3:9Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.

1 Peter 5:3Neither as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the 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 →

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