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

¹⁶ I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

¹⁷ Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

¹ Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

² Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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

¹² that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

⁹ not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

⁴ each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

⁵ Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

² Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

³ For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."