1 Corinthians 4:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

2 Thess 3:9 : 9 not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
1 Cor 11:1 : 1 Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Phil 3:17 : 17 Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.
1 Thess 1:6 : 6 And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;
Phil 4:9 : 9 The things which ye {G3129} both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Heb 13:7 : 7 Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.
1 Pet 5:3 : 3 neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
John 10:4-5 : 4 {G2532} When he hath put forth all his own, {G4263} he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

1 Cor 11:1-2
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1Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2Now I praise you {G80} that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
Gal 4:11-12
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11I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.
12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are]. Ye did me no wrong:
Phil 3:16-17
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16only, {G3739} whereunto we have attained, by that same [rule] let us {G5426} walk.
17Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.
1 Cor 4:17
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17For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
Eph 5:1
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1Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;
1 Cor 4:14-15
2 verses
77%
14I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.
1 Thess 4:1-2
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77%
1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, — that ye abound more and more.
2For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
Eph 4:1
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1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,
Phlm 1:8-10
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8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,
9yet for love's sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:
10I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,
1 Tim 1:3
73%
3As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
2 Cor 10:1-2
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1Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:
2yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
1 Thess 1:6-7
2 verses
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6And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;
7so that ye became an ensample to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
Heb 13:19
72%
19And I exhort [you] the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Rom 15:30
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30Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
Phil 4:1-2
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72%
1Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.
2I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord.
2 Cor 2:8
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8Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward him.
Phil 4:9
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9The things which ye {G3129} both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
1 Cor 16:15-16
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15Now I beseech you, brethren (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to minister unto the saints),
16that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to every one that helpeth in the work and laboreth.
1 Thess 4:10
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10for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;
Gal 4:19
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19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until {G3739} Christ be formed in you—
1 Cor 15:11
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11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
1 Tim 4:11
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11These things command and teach.
Heb 13:22
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22But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written unto you in few words.
2 Thess 3:7
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7For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
1 Cor 1:10
70%
10Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing and [that] there be no divisions among you; but [that] ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
2 Cor 1:16
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16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judaea.
2 Tim 2:1
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1Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Col 2:6
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6As therefore ye {G3880} received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk in him,
2 Tim 4:9
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9Give diligence to come shortly unto me:
2 Tim 3:10
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10But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,
2 Thess 2:15
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15So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.
Phil 1:30
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30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
1 Thess 2:14
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14For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;
2 Cor 5:20
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20We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.
2 Thess 3:9
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9not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
Phil 2:18
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18and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.
2 Cor 11:1
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1Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.
Rom 16:17
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17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.
1 Thess 2:12
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12to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.