I urge you therefore—be imitators of me.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
So I urge and implore you, be imitators of me.
I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
so I encourage you to follow my example.
Therefore, I beg you, be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.
Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Messiah.
Brothers and sisters, join in following my example and notice those who walk according to the pattern you have in us. (
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—put these things into practice, and the God of shalom will be with you.
You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having accepted the message in much tribulation, with the joy of the Ruach ha-Kodesh.
It wasn’t that we had no right, but rather to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
Don’t lord it over those apportioned to you, but become examples to the flock.