1 Corinthians 4:16 - Compare All Versions

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Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

So I urge you to imitate me.

Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

I’m not writing all this as a neighborhood scold to shame you. I’m writing as a father to you, my children. I love you and want you to grow up well, not spoiled. There are a lot of people around who can’t wait to tell you what you’ve done wrong, but there aren’t many fathers willing to take the time and effort to help you grow up. It was as Jesus helped me proclaim God’s Message to you that I became your father. I’m not, you know, asking you to do anything I’m not already doing myself.

Therefore I urge you, be imitators of me.

So I urge you, be imitators of me [just as a child imitates his father].

I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.