Philippians 3:17
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:16
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
Read in context1 Peter 5:3
Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
Read in context1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Read in contextHebrews 13:7
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 3:7
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
Read in context2 Thessalonians 3:9
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 1:6
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
Read in context