Example of Christ, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Hebrews 7:26 NT

  For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

• 1 Peter 1:15 NT

  but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

• 1 Peter 1:16 NT

  because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”

• Romans 1:6 NT

  among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

• 1 John 2:6 NT

  he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

• 1 John 3:3 NT

  Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

• John 13:34 NT

  A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

• Ephesians 5:2 NT

  Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

• 1 John 3:16 NT

  By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

• Luke 22:27 NT

  For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

• Philippians 2:5 NT

  Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

• Philippians 2:7 NT

  but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

• Matthew 11:29 NT

  Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

• John 15:10 NT

  If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

• Matthew 16:24 NT

  Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

• Romans 15:3 NT

  For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

• Matthew 20:28 NT

  even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

• John 13:14 NT

  If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

• John 13:15 NT

  For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

• Acts 20:35 NT

  In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

• 2 Corinthians 8:7 NT

  But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

• 2 Corinthians 8:9 NT

  For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

• Colossians 3:13 NT

  bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

• John 16:33 NT

  I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”