Philippians 3:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Συμμιμηταί μου γίνεσθε, ἀδελφοί, καὶ σκοπεῖτε τοὺς οὕτως περιπατοῦντας καθὼς ἔχετε τύπον ἡμᾶς.

Transliteration

Symmimētai of me ginesthe, adelphoi, and skopeite the ones thus peripatountas according as you have typon us.

Grammar Details

• *Symmimētai*: nominative, masculine, plural - fellow imitators
• *ginesthe*: imperative, present, middle, 2nd person plural - become
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *skopeite*: imperative, present, active, 2nd person plural - observe/watch
• *peripatountas*: participle, present, active, accusative, masculine, plural - walking
• *typon*: accusative, masculine, singular - pattern/example

Word Meanings

• *Symmimētai*: fellow imitators/joint followers
• *ginesthe*: become/be
• *skopeite*: observe/mark/watch carefully
• *peripatountas*: walking/conducting themselves
• *typon*: pattern/example/model

Referenced Verses

• 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.
• 1 Cor 4:16 : 16 I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
• 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
• 1 Cor 10:32-11:1 : 32 Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God: 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved. 1 Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
• Ps 37:37 : 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; For there is a [happy] end to the man of peace.
• Rom 16:17 : 17 Now 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 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;
• 1 Thess 2:10-14 : 10 Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe: 11 as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying, 12 to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory. 13 And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe. 14 For 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 Thess 3:7 : 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
• 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.
• 2 Thess 3:14 : 14 And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
• 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.
• 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.