¹ Followers of me become ye, as I also `am' of Christ.

¹⁶ I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;

¹⁷ become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;

¹ Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

² and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

⁶ and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

⁹ not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

⁴ each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

⁵ For, let this mind be in you that `is' also in Christ Jesus,

² for let each one of us please the neighbor for good, unto edification,

³ for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'