John 13:15

For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

In Context

14If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet, it is also your duty to wash one another's feet.

16In most solemn truth I tell you that a servant is not superior to his master, nor is a messenger superior to him who sent him.

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Cross References

Romans 15:5And may God, the giver of power of endurance and of that encouragement, grant you to be in full sympathy with one another in accordance with the example of Christ Jesus,

1 Peter 2:21And it is to this you were called; because Christ also suffered on your behalf, leaving you an example so that you should follow in His steps.

1 John 2:6The man who professes to be continuing in Him is himself also bound to live as He lived.

Matthew Henry on John 13:2-18

Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet; Necessity of Obedience. 1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. 2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; 3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; 4 He riseth from… Read the whole commentary →

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