Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.
The 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.\par
I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.
For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:
And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright;\par\tab For there is a {\i happy} end to the man of peace.
Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.