10 Bible Verses about Examples, Purpose Of
Most Relevant Verses
since he condemn'd the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to an entire subversion, and reduc'd them to ashes, to make them serve for examples to future impiety:
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them.
now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did. be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day.read more.
neither let us provoke Christ as some of them provoked him, and were destroyed by serpents. neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were slain by the destroying angel. All these things happened to them for examples: and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
if I then, tho' lord and master, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
the holy religious women of former times were thus adorned, and were submissive to their husbands.
let the prophets, my brethren, who were commission'd by the Lord, be your examples; suffer persecution with constancy like them.
from a principle of conscience. what glory is there in suffering corporal punishment for real offences? but if you meet with ill usage for doing your duty, and bear it with constancy, this will conciliate the divine favour. and this is the condition of your vocation, since Christ himself has suffer'd for us, leaving an example for your exact imitation, he who never offended, and from whose lips no fallacy was ever utter'd,
tread in my steps, my brethren, and fix your eyes upon those who follow the example I give you.
now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did.
All these things happened to them for examples: and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
