Philippians 3:17
“Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.”
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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“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.”
“For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;”
“Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.”
“So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.”