⁷ for yourselves have known how it behoveth `you' to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

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.

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

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

⁷ concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

¹² let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

⁶ And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

¹⁰ ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

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,

⁷ so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia,

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.

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