Philippians 3:17
15 All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.
16 Nevertheless, we must live up to what we have already attained.
Join one another in following my example, brothers, and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you.
18 For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Join one another in following my example, brothers, and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you.
- KJV
- Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
- WEB
- Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
- ASV
- Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.
- DARBY
- Be imitators [all] together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;
- BLB
- Be imitators together of me, brothers, and look at those walking thus, as you⁺ have a pattern in us.
- ÅB
- Bli også dere mine etterfølgere, brødre, og akt på dem som vandrer saledes som dere har oss til forbilde!
- OTB
- Bli med i å følge mitt eksempel, brødre og søstre, og observer de som lever i henhold til mønsteret dere har i oss.
- B1930
- Bli også I mine efterfølgere, brødre, og akt på dem som vandrer saledes som I har oss til forbillede!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Philippians 4:9
Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me, put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
Read in context1 Peter 5:3
not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
Read in context1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Read in contextHebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 3:7
For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,
Read in context2 Thessalonians 3:9
Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 1:6
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.
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