1 Corinthians 4:16

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Therefore, I beg you, be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ.

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Be imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.

Be imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who are walking similarly, just as you have seen by our example.

All the things that you have learned and accepted and heard and seen in me, do these. And so shall the God of peace be with you.

And so, you became imitators of us and of the Lord, accepting the Word in the midst of great tribulation, but with the joy of the Holy Spirit.

It was not as if we had no authority, but this was so that we might present ourselves as an example to you, in order to imitate us.

Remember your leaders, who have spoken the Word of God to you, whose faith you imitate, by observing the goal of their way of life:

not so as to dominate by means of the clerical state, but so as to be formed into a flock from the heart.