Example
59 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Bad, Admonitions Against
- Leviticus 18:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 20:23 You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
- Deuteronomy 18:9 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
- 2 Chronicles 30:7 Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.
- Proverbs 22:24–25 Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man, …
- Isaiah 8:11 For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:
- Jeremiah 16:12 And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
- Jeremiah 17:1–2 “The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. …
- Ezekiel 20:18 In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
- Hosea 4:9 And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
- Hosea 4:15 Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
- Hosea 5:5 Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.
- Zechariah 1:4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
- Matthew 23:1–3 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: …
- 1 Corinthians 8:9–13 Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. …
- 1 Corinthians 10:6 These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
- Ephesians 4:17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
- 3 John 11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
Christ, Our
- Matthew 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- Mark 10:43–45 But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, …
- Luke 22:27 For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.
- John 13:13–17 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am. …
- John 13:34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
- Romans 15:2–7 Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. …
- 2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
- 2 Corinthians 10:1 Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you — I, Paul, who am humble when face to face with you, but bold when away.
- Ephesians 5:1–2 Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, …
- Philippians 2:5–8 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: …
- Colossians 3:13 Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
- Hebrews 12:2–3 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. …
- 1 Peter 2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:
- 1 Peter 3:17–18 For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. …
- 1 Peter 4:1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
- 1 John 2:6 Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
- 1 John 3:16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
- Revelation 3:21 To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
God, Our
- Leviticus 11:44 For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
- Leviticus 19:2 “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
- Matthew 5:48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- Luke 6:36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
- Ephesians 6:9 And masters, do the same for your slaves. Give up your use of threats, because you know that He who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.
Good
- Nehemiah 5:8–19 and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say. …
- Psalm 101:2 I will ponder the way that is blameless — when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:6–8 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering. …
- 1 Timothy 4:12 Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
- Titus 2:7–8 In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works. In your teaching show integrity, dignity, …
- Hebrews 13:7 Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
- James 5:10–11 Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. …
- 1 Peter 2:11–25 Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul. …
- 1 Peter 3:5–6 For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands, …
- 1 Peter 5:3 not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
Paul, Our
- Acts 20:35 In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
- 1 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
- 1 Corinthians 7:7–8 I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. …
- 1 Corinthians 11:1 You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
- Philippians 3:17 Join one another in following my example, brothers, and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you.
- Philippians 4:9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me, put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:7–10 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you, …
- 1 Timothy 1:16 But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
- 2 Timothy 1:13 Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.