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

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

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.

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

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.

¹² Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

¹⁴ And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

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

⁷ For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God `also', how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:

¹¹ as ye know how we `dealt with' each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging `you', and testifying,

¹² to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹³ And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, `even the word' of God, ye accepted `it' not `as' the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

¹⁴ For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;

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

³² Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

³³ even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the `profit' of the many, that they may be saved.

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

¹⁷ Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.

³⁷ Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; For there is a `happy' end to the man of peace.