30 Bible Verses about Imitating
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Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He that does good is of God. He that does evil has not seen God.
For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:
Be imitators all together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;

Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
And he said to them all, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me;
for I have given you an example that, as I have done to you, ye should do also.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;
A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to fulfil its lusts.
What ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these things do; and the God of peace shall be with you.
not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.
For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because we have not walked disorderly among you;
and ye became our imitators, and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of the Holy Spirit,
that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.
For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,
Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment.
take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow after them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Topics on Imitating
Imitating Good Kings
2 Chronicles 11:17And they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong three years; for during three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
Imitating Good People
Hebrews 13:7Remember your leaders who have spoken to you the word of God; and considering the issue of their conversation, imitate their faith.
Imitating Jesus
1 Peter 2:21For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:
Imitating Wicked Kings
1 Kings 15:34And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin where with he made Israel to sin.
Imitating Wicked People
2 Kings 17:15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
Not Imitating Evil
Exodus 23:24Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their deeds; but thou shalt utterly destroy them, and utterly shatter their statues.
Not Imitating Good
1 Samuel 8:3And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
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- Examples
- Examples, Good
- Exemplified
- Giving, Of Oneself
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