Be ye followers of me, brethren, and observe them who walk so as you have our model.
The things which you have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these do ye, and the God of peace shall be with you.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.
Neither as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.
Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.
Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you; whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation,
Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.
For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;
Be without offence to the Jews, and to the Gentiles, and to the church of God:
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed:
And you became followers of us, and of the Lord; receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.
BE ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.