1 Corinthians 4:16
I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
In Context
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:1Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Philippians 4:9The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
2 Thessalonians 3:9not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves and ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
1 Peter 5:3neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
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 →