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

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

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

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

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,

⁹ the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.

⁷ Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,

⁴ and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

⁵ and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'

³ neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,