1 Corinthians 4:16

I beg you then to imitate my example.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

In Context

15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

17With this in mind I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ; the manner in which I ever teach everywhere in every church.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:1Be imitators of me, as I am an imitator of Christ.

Philippians 4:9Put in practise also what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me; and the God of peace shall be with you.

2 Thessalonians 3:9Not that I have no right to such support; it was simply to give you an example for you to imitate.

1 Peter 5:3not by way of lording it over your heritage, but by becoming examples 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 →

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