Example
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Example’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 25–48 of 69 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Titus 2:7 NT
In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
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Titus 2:8 NT
and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
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Hebrews 13:7 NT
Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
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James 5:10 NT
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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James 5:11 NT
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which…
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1 Peter 3:5 NT
For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.
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1 Peter 3:6 NT
So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
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1 Peter 5:3 NT
not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
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For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
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“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
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Matthew 5:48 NT
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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Luke 6:36 NT
“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
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You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
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even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant. Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all. For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve,…
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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.
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You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have…
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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.
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Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.” For whatever things were written…
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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.
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Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
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Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
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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.