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.)
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.”
“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.”
“Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.”
“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.”
“Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.”