30 Bible Verses about Imitating

Beloved, do not imitate the bad, but the good. He who does good is from God, but he who does evil has not seen God.

For you were not called to this? For Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps,

Therefore be followers of God, as dear children.

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who walk this way, for you have us for a pattern.

because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."

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.

And calling near the crowd with His disciples, He said to them, Whoever will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

And He said to all, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

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

Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. As I have loved you, you should also love one another.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take thought beforehand for the lusts of the flesh.

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

Therefore I beseech you, be imitators of me.

Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.

(not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example to you, to imitate us).

For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us. For we did not behave ourselves disorderly among you,

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, welcoming the Word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by your own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews;

You shall not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shall you speak in a cause in order to follow many in order to wrest judgment.

take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may do likewise?