¹⁶ I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

⁹ not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves and ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

¹ Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

¹⁷ Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.

⁶ And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;

⁹ The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

⁷ Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.

⁴ When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

⁵ And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

³ neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.