Now these things were done as an example; and were put down in writing for our teaching, on whom the last days have come.
Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.
So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.
So my desire is that you take me as your example.
Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.
This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:
And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;
So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.
But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.
Let no one make little of you because you are young, but be an example to the church in word, in behaviour, in love, in faith, in holy living.
Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.
For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.
They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;
For you yourselves are used to taking us as your example, because our life among you was ruled by order,
Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.
But you took as your example my teaching, behaviour, purpose, and faith; my long waiting, my love, my quiet undergoing of trouble;
In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead.
When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.
For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:
So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.
Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.
And you will be a name of shame and a cause of bitter words, an example and a wonder to the nations round about you, when I give effect to my judging among you in wrath and in passion and in burning protests: I the Lord have said it:
Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.
So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.
Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.
I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?
Take an example from the fig-tree: when its branches become soft and put out their leaves, you see that the summer is near;
And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately.
All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.
Now take an example from the fig-tree: when her branch has become soft and puts out its leaves, you are certain that the summer is near;
Brothers, take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the example we have given.
Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.
In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour,
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