30 Bible Verses about Imitating

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

for it is written, "You shall be holy, because I am holy."

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Then Jesus called the crowd, along with his disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Then he said to them all, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

For I have given you an example -- you should do just as I have done for you.

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

"I give you a new commandment -- to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

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

I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.

And what you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you,

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God's churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

"You must not follow a crowd in doing evil things; in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice,

After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same."