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1 Corinthians 4:16
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Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
Wherefore I beseech you, be yee followers of me.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
Therefore I urge you, be imitators of me.
so I beg you, please follow my example.
So I urge you, be imitators of me [just as a child imitates his father].
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.
Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
I entreat you therefore, be my imitators.
So I beg you to be like me.
Wherefore, I pray you, be ye folowers of me.
I beseech you therefore, to follow me.
I beg you, then, to follow my example.
Therefore I exhort you, become imitators of me.
Because of this, I urge you, be imitators of me.
I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
So my desire is that you take me as your example.
I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
So I urge you to become imitators of me.1 Corinthians 11:1; Philippians 3:17; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:9;">[xr]
I entreat then of you that you be like me.
I beseech you, therefore, that ye be like me.
Wherfore, I desire you, be ye folowers of me.
I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
I beseech you therefore, be ye followers of me.
I entreat you therefore to become like me.
Therfor, britheren, Y preye you, be ye foleweris of me, as Y of Crist.
I urge you therefore, be imitators of me.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.
Therefore I urge you, imitate me.
So I urge you to imitate me.
So I ask you with all my heart to follow the way I live.
I appeal to you, then, be imitators of me.
I beseech you, therefore, - become imitators of me.
Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me as I also am of Christ.
I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
Wherfore I desyre you to folowe me.
I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;
Wherfore I exhorte you, be ye my folowers.
and therefore I intreat you, to copy after me.
So watch me carefully and do what I do.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
1 Corinthians 11:1, John 10:4, John 10:5, Philippians 3:17, 1 Thessalonians 1:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, Hebrews 13:7, 1 Peter 5:3
Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 1:10 - I beseech Ephesians 4:1 - beseech 2 Thessalonians 3:7 - how 3 John 1:11 - follow
Cross-References
Late in the afternoon a breeze began to blow, and the man and woman heard the Lord God walking in the garden. They were frightened and hid behind some trees.
"You're making me leave my home and live far from you. I will have to wander about without a home, and just anyone could kill me."
The people trembled with fear when they heard the thunder and the trumpet and saw the lightning and the smoke coming from the mountain. They stood a long way off
But the Lord was kind to the Israelites and showed them mercy because of his solemn agreement with their ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In fact, he has never turned his back on them or let them be completely destroyed.
It was Zedekiah who finally rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar. The people of Judah and Jerusalem had made the Lord so angry that he finally turned his back on them. That's why these horrible things were happening.
The Lord replied, "All right, Satan, do what you want with anything that belongs to him, but don't harm Job." Then Satan left.
Satan left and caused painful sores to break out all over Job's body—from head to toe.
and never enjoy rivers flowing with milk and honey.
Let all who run to you for protection always sing joyful songs. Provide shelter for those who truly love you and let them rejoice.
Scatter them like smoke! When you come near, make them melt like wax in a fire.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wherefore, I beseech you,.... Though he might have used the power and authority of a father, yet he chose rather to entreat and beseech them; saying,
be ye followers of me; for who should children follow, but their parents? The Vulgate Latin, adds, "as I am of Christ"; so Chrysostom in his time read it; and Beza says he found it so written in one Greek exemplar; and so it is in one of Stephens's; it seems to have crept in from 1 Corinthians 11:1. However, though it might not be now expressed by the apostle, it is to be supposed; for he never desired any to follow him any more, or further than he followed Christ; particularly he was desirous that these his spiritual children would follow him, and abide by him in the doctrine of a crucified Christ, he had preached among them, and not the false apostles, who had represented his ministry as weak and foolish; and in his life and conversation, especially in his humble carriage and deportment among them, and in his tender love and affection for them; observing their growing pride, haughtiness, and vain opinion of themselves, and those unnatural divisions and animosities which were fomented among them; and also in bearing reproach and persecution cheerfully and patiently, for the Gospel of Christ; a detail of which he had given them in some preceding verses.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wherefore - Since I am your spiritual father.
Be ye followers of me - Imitate me; copy my example; listen to my admonitions. Probably Paul had particularly in his eye their tendency to form parties; and here admonishes them that he had no disposition to form sects, and entreats them in this to imitate his example. A minister should always so live as that he can, without pride or ostentation, point to his own example; and entreat his people to imitate him. He should have such a confidence in his own integrity; he should lead such a blameless life; and “he should be assured that his people have so much evidence of his integrity,” that he can point them to his own example, and entreat them to live like himself. And to do this, he should live a life of piety, and should furnish such evidence of a pure conversation, that his people may have reason to regard him as a holy man.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 4:16. Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me. — It should rather be translated, Be ye imitators of me; μιμηται, from which we have our word mimic, which, though now used only in a bad or ludicrous sense, simply signifies an imitator of another person, whether in speech, manner, habit, or otherwise. As children should imitate their parents in preference to all others, he calls on them to imitate him, as he claims them for his children. He lived for God and eternity, seeking not his own glory, emolument, or ease: those sowers of sedition among them were actuated by different motives. Here then the apostle compares himself with them: follow and imitate me, as I follow and imitate Christ: do not imitate them who, from their worldly pursuits, show themselves to be actuated with a worldly spirit.
