the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Green's Literal Translation
1 Corinthians 4:16
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Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
Wherefore I beseech you, be yee followers of me.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
Therefore I urge you, be imitators of me.
so I beg you, please follow my example.
So I urge you, be imitators of me [just as a child imitates his father].
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.
Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
and I want you to be like me.
Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
I entreat you therefore, be my imitators.
So I beg you to be like me.
Wherefore, I pray you, be ye folowers of me.
I beseech you therefore, to follow me.
I beg you, then, to follow my example.
Therefore I exhort you, become imitators of me.
I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
So my desire is that you take me as your example.
I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
So I urge you to become imitators of me.1 Corinthians 11:1; Philippians 3:17; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:9;">[xr]
I entreat then of you that you be like me.
I beseech you, therefore, that ye be like me.
Wherfore, I desire you, be ye folowers of me.
I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
I beseech you therefore, be ye followers of me.
I entreat you therefore to become like me.
Therfor, britheren, Y preye you, be ye foleweris of me, as Y of Crist.
I urge you therefore, be imitators of me.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.
Therefore I urge you, imitate me.
So I urge you to imitate me.
So I ask you with all my heart to follow the way I live.
I appeal to you, then, be imitators of me.
I beseech you, therefore, - become imitators of me.
Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me as I also am of Christ.
I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
Wherfore I desyre you to folowe me.
I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;
Wherfore I exhorte you, be ye my folowers.
and therefore I intreat you, to copy after me.
So watch me carefully and do what I do.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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1 Corinthians 11:1, John 10:4, John 10:5, Philippians 3:17, 1 Thessalonians 1:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, Hebrews 13:7, 1 Peter 5:3
Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 1:10 - I beseech Ephesians 4:1 - beseech 2 Thessalonians 3:7 - how 3 John 1:11 - follow
Cross-References
And they heard the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the face of Jehovah God in the middle of the trees of the garden.
Behold! You have driven me out from the face of the earth today. And I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth. And it will be that anyone who finds me shall kill me.
And all the people saw the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the ram's horn, and the smoking mountain. And the people looked, and they trembled, and they stood from a distance.
And Jehovah was gracious to them, and pitied them, and turned toward them, for the sake of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and was not willing to destroy them, nor to cast them out from His presence as yet.
For through the anger of Jehovah it happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He had cast them out from His face, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that is his is in your hand! Only, do not lay your hand on him. And Satan went out from the face of Jehovah.
And Satan went out from before the face of Jehovah. And he struck Job with bad burning ulcers from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
He shall not see the rivers, the flowings of torrents of honey and curd;
But let all who put their trust in You rejoice; let them shout for joy forever, because You cover them. And let those who love Your name be joyful in You.
As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked perish in God's presence.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wherefore, I beseech you,.... Though he might have used the power and authority of a father, yet he chose rather to entreat and beseech them; saying,
be ye followers of me; for who should children follow, but their parents? The Vulgate Latin, adds, "as I am of Christ"; so Chrysostom in his time read it; and Beza says he found it so written in one Greek exemplar; and so it is in one of Stephens's; it seems to have crept in from 1 Corinthians 11:1. However, though it might not be now expressed by the apostle, it is to be supposed; for he never desired any to follow him any more, or further than he followed Christ; particularly he was desirous that these his spiritual children would follow him, and abide by him in the doctrine of a crucified Christ, he had preached among them, and not the false apostles, who had represented his ministry as weak and foolish; and in his life and conversation, especially in his humble carriage and deportment among them, and in his tender love and affection for them; observing their growing pride, haughtiness, and vain opinion of themselves, and those unnatural divisions and animosities which were fomented among them; and also in bearing reproach and persecution cheerfully and patiently, for the Gospel of Christ; a detail of which he had given them in some preceding verses.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wherefore - Since I am your spiritual father.
Be ye followers of me - Imitate me; copy my example; listen to my admonitions. Probably Paul had particularly in his eye their tendency to form parties; and here admonishes them that he had no disposition to form sects, and entreats them in this to imitate his example. A minister should always so live as that he can, without pride or ostentation, point to his own example; and entreat his people to imitate him. He should have such a confidence in his own integrity; he should lead such a blameless life; and “he should be assured that his people have so much evidence of his integrity,” that he can point them to his own example, and entreat them to live like himself. And to do this, he should live a life of piety, and should furnish such evidence of a pure conversation, that his people may have reason to regard him as a holy man.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 4:16. Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me. — It should rather be translated, Be ye imitators of me; μιμηται, from which we have our word mimic, which, though now used only in a bad or ludicrous sense, simply signifies an imitator of another person, whether in speech, manner, habit, or otherwise. As children should imitate their parents in preference to all others, he calls on them to imitate him, as he claims them for his children. He lived for God and eternity, seeking not his own glory, emolument, or ease: those sowers of sedition among them were actuated by different motives. Here then the apostle compares himself with them: follow and imitate me, as I follow and imitate Christ: do not imitate them who, from their worldly pursuits, show themselves to be actuated with a worldly spirit.
