1 Corinthians 11:1

THE MESSAGE

It pleases me that you continue to remember and honor me by keeping up the traditions of the faith I taught you. All actual authority stems from Christ.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Follow my example, just as I follow the example of Christ.

Revised Standard Version
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I commende you

Hebrew Names Version
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Messiah.

International Standard Version
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.1 Corinthians 4:16; Ephesians 5:1; Philippians 3:17; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:9;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

New Century Version
Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.

Update Bible Version
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Webster's Bible Translation
Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.

English Standard Version
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

World English Bible
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

Weymouth's New Testament
Be imitators of me, in so far as I in turn am an imitator of Christ.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be ye my foleweris, as Y am of Crist.

English Revised Version
Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Berean Standard Bible
You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

Contemporary English Version
You must follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.

Amplified Bible
Imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

American Standard Version
Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Bible in Basic English
So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.

Complete Jewish Bible
try to imitate me, even as I myself try to imitate the Messiah.

Darby Translation
Be my imitators, even as *I* also [am] of Christ.

Etheridge Translation
Be imitators of me, as I am of the Meshiha.

Murdock Translation
Be ye imitators of me, as I am of the Messiah.

King James Version (1611)
Be yee followers of mee, euen as I also am of Christ.

New Living Translation
And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

New Life Bible
Follow my way of thinking as I follow Christ.

New Revised Standard
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Be yee followers of mee, euen as I am of Christ.

George Lamsa Translation
TAKE example by me, even as I also fol low Christ.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Become imitators of me, - even as, I also, am of Christ.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Be ye the folowers of me, euen as I am of Christe.

Good News Translation
Imitate me, then, just as I imitate Christ.

Christian Standard Bible®
Imitate me, as I also imitate Christ.

King James Version
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Lexham English Bible
Become imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

Literal Translation
Be imitators of me, as I am also of Christ.

Young's Literal Translation
Followers of me become ye, as I also [am] of Christ.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I commende you

Mace New Testament (1729)
Imitate herein my example as I do that of Christ.

New English Translation
Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

New King James Version
Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Y'all just watch what I'm doing because I'm watching what Christ does.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

Legacy Standard Bible
Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

Contextual Overview

¹It pleases me that you continue to remember and honor me by keeping up the traditions of the faith I taught you. All actual authority stems from Christ. ³In a marriage relationship, there is authority from Christ to husband, and from husband to wife. The authority of Christ is the authority of God. Any man who speaks with God or about God in a way that shows a lack of respect for the authority of Christ, dishonors Christ. In the same way, a wife who speaks with God in a way that shows a lack of respect for the authority of her husband, dishonors her husband. Worse, she dishonors herself—an ugly sight, like a woman with her head shaved. This is basically the origin of these customs we have of women wearing head coverings in worship, while men take their hats off. By these symbolic acts, men and women, who far too often butt heads with each other, submit their "heads" to the Head: God. ¹⁰Don't, by the way, read too much into the differences here between men and women. Neither man nor woman can go it alone or claim priority. Man was created first, as a beautiful shining reflection of God—that is true. But the head on a woman's body clearly outshines in beauty the head of her "head," her husband. The first woman came from man, true—but ever since then, every man comes from a woman! And since virtually everything comes from God anyway, let's quit going through these "who's first" routines. ¹³Don't you agree there is something naturally powerful in the symbolism—a woman, her beautiful hair reminiscent of angels, praying in adoration; a man, his head bared in reverence, praying in submission? I hope you're not going to be argumentative about this. All God's churches see it this way; I don't want you standing out as an exception.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Be ye: 1 Corinthians 4:16, 1 Corinthians 10:33, Philippians 3:17, 1 Thessalonians 1:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, Hebrews 6:12

even: Romans 15:2, Romans 15:3, Ephesians 5:1, Ephesians 5:2, Philippians 2:4, Philippians 2:5

Reciprocal: Judges 7:17 - General Song of Solomon 1:8 - go John 10:4 - he goeth 1 Corinthians 8:11 - shall 1 Corinthians 8:13 - if meat Philippians 4:9 - which 2 Thessalonians 3:7 - how 1 Timothy 4:12 - be thou Hebrews 13:7 - whose 1 Peter 2:21 - leaving 1 John 2:6 - to walk 3 John 1:11 - follow

Cross-References

Isaiah 19:18
On that Day, more than one city in Egypt will learn to speak the language of faith and promise to follow God -of-the-Angel-Armies. One of these cities will be honored with the title "City of the Sun."

Zephaniah 3:9
"In the end I will turn things around for the people. I'll give them a language undistorted, unpolluted, Words to address God in worship and, united, to serve me with their shoulders to the wheel. They'll come from beyond the Ethiopian rivers, they'll come praying— All my scattered, exiled people will come home with offerings for worship. You'll no longer have to be ashamed of all those acts of rebellion. I'll have gotten rid of your arrogant leaders. No more pious strutting on my holy hill! I'll leave a core of people among you who are poor in spirit— What's left of Israel that's really Israel. They'll make their home in God . This core holy people will not do wrong. They won't lie, won't use words to flatter or seduce. Content with who they are and where they are, unanxious, they'll live at peace."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. c] These words more properly close the preceding chapter, than begin a new one, and refer to the rules therein laid down, and which the apostle would have the Corinthians follow him in, as he did Christ: that as he sought, both in private and public, and more especially in his ministerial service, to do all things to the glory of God, and not for his own popular applause, in which he imitated Christ, who sought not his own glory, but the glory of him that sent him so he would have them do all they did in the name of Christ, and to the glory of God by him: and that as he studied to exercise a conscience void of offence to God and man, in doing which he was a follower of Christ, who was holy in his nature, and harmless and inoffensive in his conversation; so he was desirous that they should likewise be blameless, harmless, and without offence until the day of Christ: and that whereas he endeavoured to please men in all things lawful and indifferent, wherein he copied after Christ, who by his affable and courteous behaviour, and humble deportment, sought to please and gratify all with whom he conversed; so he would have them not to mind high things, but condescend to men of low estates, and become all things to all, that they might gain some as he did: and once more, that as he sought not his own pleasure and advantage, but the salvation of others, in imitation of Christ, who pleased not himself, but took upon him, and bore cheerfully, the reproaches of men, that he might procure good for them; so the apostle suggests, that it would be right in them not to seek to have their own wills in every thing, but rather to please their neighbour for good to edification.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be ye followers of me - Imitate my example in the matter now under discussion. As I deny myself; as I seek to give no offence to anyone; as I endeavor not to alarm the prejudices of others, but in all things to seek their salvation, so do you. This verse belongs to the previous chapter, and should not have been separated from it. It is the close of the discussion there.

Even as I also am of Christ - I make Christ my example. He is my model in all things; and if you follow him, and follow me as far as I follow him, you will not err. This is the only safe example; and if we follow this, we can never go astray.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XI.

The apostle reprehends the Corinthians for several

irregularities in their manner of conducting public worship;

the men praying or prophesying with their heads covered, and

the women with their heads uncovered, contrary to custom,

propriety, and decency, 1-6.

Reasons why they should act differently, 7-16.

They are also reproved for their divisions and heresies, 17-19.

And for the irregular manner in which they celebrated the Lord's

Supper, 20-22.

The proper manner of celebrating this holy rite laid down by

the apostle, 23-26.

Directions for a profitable receiving of the Lord's Supper,

and avoiding the dangerous consequences of communicating

unworthily, 27-34.

NOTES ON CHAP. XI.

Verse 1 Corinthians 11:1. Be ye followers of me — This verse certainly belongs to the preceding chapter, and is here out of all proper place and connection.