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.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And…
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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.
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Hebrews 12:2 NT
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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Hebrews 12:3 NT
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
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1 Peter 2:21 NT
For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
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1 Peter 3:17 NT
For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
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1 Peter 3:18 NT
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
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1 Peter 4:1 NT
Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
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1 John 2:6 NT
he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
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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.
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He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
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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.’”
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I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
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Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
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But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
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Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
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Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
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The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
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For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you, neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any…
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However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
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Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.