Philippians 3:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so 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 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.
• 1 Cor 4:16 : 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
• 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
• 1 Cor 10:32-11:1 : 32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. 1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
• Ps 37:37 : 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold{H8798)} the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
• Rom 16:17 : 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
• 1 Thess 1:6 : 6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
• 1 Thess 2:10-14 : 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: 11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, 12 {G2532} That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. 13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. 14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
• 2 Thess 3:7 : 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
• 2 Thess 3:9 : 9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
• 2 Thess 3:14 : 14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
• 1 Tim 4:12 : 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.
• Heb 13:7 : 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.