The Example of Christ
27 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
18 sections
- Conformity To, Progressive
- Conformity To, Required in Being Guileless
- Conformity To, Required in Being not of the World
- Conformity To, Required in Benevolence
- Conformity To, Required in Forgiving Injuries
- Conformity To, Required in Holiness
- Conformity To, Required in Humility
- Conformity To, Required in Love
- Conformity To, Required in Meekness
- Conformity To, Required in Ministering to Others
- Conformity To, Required in Obedience
- Conformity To, Required in Overcoming the World
- Conformity To, Required in Purity
- Conformity To, Required in Righteousness
- Conformity To, Required in Self-Denial
- Conformity To, Required in Suffering for Righteousness
- Conformity To, Required in Suffering Wrongfully
- Saints Predestinated to Follow
Conformity To, Progressive
- 2 Corinthians 3:18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
Conformity To, Required in Being Guileless
- 1 Peter 2:21–22 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps: …
Conformity To, Required in Being not of the World
- John 17:16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Conformity To, Required in Benevolence
- 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.’”
- 2 Corinthians 8:7 But just as you excel in everything — in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness, and in the love we inspired in you — see that you also excel in this grace of giving.
- 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.
Conformity To, Required in Forgiving Injuries
- Colossians 3:13 Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Conformity To, Required in Holiness
- 1 Peter 1:15–16 But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, …
- Romans 1:6 And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
Conformity To, Required in Humility
- 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.
- Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
- Philippians 2:7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Conformity To, Required in Love
- John 13:34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
- Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
- 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.
Conformity To, Required in Meekness
- Matthew 11:29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Conformity To, Required in Ministering to Others
- 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.”
- John 13:14–15 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. …
Conformity To, Required in Obedience
- John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
Conformity To, Required in Overcoming the World
- John 16:33 I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
- 1 John 5:4 because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
Conformity To, Required in Purity
- 1 John 3:3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
Conformity To, Required in Righteousness
- 1 John 2:6 Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
Conformity To, Required in Self-Denial
- Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
- Romans 15:3 For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”
Conformity To, Required in Suffering for Righteousness
- Hebrews 12:3–4 Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. …
Conformity To, Required in Suffering Wrongfully
- 1 Peter 2:21–23 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps: …
Saints Predestinated to Follow
- Romans 8:29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
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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.