1 Corinthians 4:16

I entreat you therefore to become like me.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

In Context

15For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors--for all that you could not have several fathers. It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through the Good News.

17For this reason I have sent Timothy to you. Spiritually he is my dearly-loved and faithful child. He will remind you of my habits as a Christian teacher--the manner in which I teach everywhere in every Church.

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Cross References

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

Philippians 4:9The doctrines and the line of conduct which I taught you--both what you heard and what you saw in me-- hold fast to them; and God who gives peace will be with you.

2 Thessalonians 3:9This was not because we had not a claim upon you, but it arose from a desire to set you an example--for you to imitate us.

1 Peter 5:3not lording it over your Churches but proving yourselves patterns for the flock to imitate.

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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