Therefore I beseech you, be imitators of me.
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who walk this way, for you have us for a pattern.
Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, welcoming the Word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
(not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example to you, to imitate us).
Remember those leading you, who have spoken to you the Word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct:
nor as lording it over those allotted to you by God, but becoming examples to the flock.
