Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: