Philippians 3:17
Be like me, my brethren; and contemplate them, who walk after the pattern ye have seen in us.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
In Context
16Nevertheless, that we may attain to this, let us proceed on in one path, and with one consent.
Cross References
Romans 16:17And I beseech you, my Brethren, that ye beware of them who cause divisions and stumblings among you, aside from the doctrine which ye have learned: and that ye stand aloof from them.
1 Corinthians 10:32Be ye without offence to the Jews, and to the Gentiles, and to the church of God:
1 Thessalonians 1:6And ye became imitators of us, and of our Lord, in that ye received the word in great affliction, and with the joy of the Holy Spirit.
2 Thessalonians 3:7For ye know how ye ought to imitate us, who did not walk wickedly among you.
2 Thessalonians 3:14And if any one hearkeneth not to these my words in this epistle, separate that man from you, and have no intimacy with him, that he may be ashamed.
Hebrews 13:7Remember your guides, who have spoken to you godly discourse; examine the issue of their course, and imitate their faith.
Matthew Henry on Philippians 3:16-17
Warnings and Exhortations. ( a. d. 62.) 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. The apostle, having proposed himself as an example, urges the Philippians to follow it. Let the same mind be in us which was in blessed Paul. We see here how he was minded; let us be like-minded, and set our hearts upon Christ… Read the whole commentary →