30 Bible Verses about Imitating
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Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good: He that doeth well is of God: but he that doeth evil seeth not God.
For hereunto verily were ye called, for Christ also suffered for us: leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps,
Brethren, be followers of me, and look on them which walk even so, as ye have us for an example.

Jesus then said to his disciples. "If any man will follow me, let him forsake himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
And he called the people unto him, with his disciples also, and said unto them, "Whosoever will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
And he said to them all, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross on him daily, and follow me.
Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek, and lowly of heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
A new commandment give I unto you: that ye love together: as I have loved you, that even so ye love one another.
but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. And make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.
which ye have both learned and received, heard and also seen in me: those things do, and the God of peace shall be with you.
not but that we had authority: but to make ourselves an example unto you, to follow us.
Ye yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: For we behaved not ourselves inordinately among you.
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord: and received the word in much affliction, with joy of the holy ghost:
that ye faint not, but follow them which through faith and patience inherit the promises.
For ye brethren became followers of the congregations of God which in Jewry are in Christ Jesus: for ye have suffered like things of your kinsmen, as we ourselves have suffered of the Jews,
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil: neither answer in a matter of plea that thou wouldest, to follow many, turn aside from the truth;
Beware that thou be not taken in a snare after them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou ask not after their gods saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods, that I may do so likewise?'
Topics on Imitating
Imitating Good Kings
2 Chronicles 11:17And so they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon mighty three years long - for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
Imitating Good People
Hebrews 13:7Remember them which have the oversight of you, which have declared unto you the word of God: consider the conversation of their living, the end of whose conversation see that ye look upon, and follow their faith.
Imitating Jesus
1 Peter 2:21For hereunto verily were ye called, for Christ also suffered for us: leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps,
Imitating Wicked Kings
1 Kings 15:34And he did that which displeased the LORD, for he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin wherewith he made Israel sin.
Imitating Wicked People
2 Kings 17:15And they refused his ordinances and his covenant that he had made with their fathers, and the witness which he had witnessed to them and followed vanity and became vain, like to the heathen that were round about them, of which the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Not Imitating Evil
Exodus 23:24see thou worship not their gods neither serve them, neither do after the works of them, but overthrow them and break down the places of them.
Not Imitating Good
1 Samuel 8:3Nevertheless, his sons followed not his steps: but turned aside after lucre and took rewards, and perverted the right.
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- Crucifying Our Flesh
- Examples
- Examples, Good
- Exemplified
- Giving, Of Oneself
- God, Suffering Of