Philippians 3:17
Brethren, zbe followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an *ensample.
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Συμμιμηταί μου γίνεσθε, ἀδελφοί, καὶ σκοπεῖτε τοὺς οὕτω περιπατοῦντας, καθὼς ἔχετε τύπον ἡμᾶς.
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1 Corinthians 4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
1 Corinthians 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
2 Thessalonians 3:9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Philippians 4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Hebrews 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
1 Peter 5:3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
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ensample-example.
he doth here not only propound his own single example to the brethren at Philippi, as he doth to others elsewhere, 1Co 4:16, implying the limitation there expressed, viz. as he and others were followers of God and Christ, 1Co 11:1 Eph 5:1 1Th 1:6 2:14; but, by a word expressing joint consent, he would have them to be fellow imitators or fellow followers of him and others in what he had exhorted them to, yea, with one heart.
so they would be like other churches which he had planted, that had an eye upon his example; whom he would have them accurately to observe, following their faith, and considering the end of their conversation, Heb 13:7, agreeing with his, and Timothy’s, (who joined with him in this Epistle), and other’s, in opposition to those who were causal of division, Rom 16:17 1Co 1:12, even such as he describes, Php 3:18,19; who did not lord it over God’s heritage, but were ensamples (in faith, love, and humility) to the flock, 2Co 1:24 1Ti 4:12 Tit 2:7,8 1Pe 5:3.