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100 Bible Verses about Imitating Christ

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 2,539 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Philippians 3:17 ESV / 1,589 helpful votes

Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV / 1,461 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

1 John 2:6 ESV / 1,245 helpful votes

Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 1,243 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

1 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 1,124 helpful votes

I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

Philippians 2:5 ESV / 1,117 helpful votes

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

John 1:14 ESV / 1,115 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 1,087 helpful votes

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 1,045 helpful votes

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

Romans 8:29 ESV / 1,045 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 1,000 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 978 helpful votes

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 963 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Philippians 4:2 ESV / 950 helpful votes

I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 936 helpful votes

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

1 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV / 894 helpful votes

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

Philippians 4:9 ESV / 862 helpful votes

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Acts 17:2 ESV / 851 helpful votes

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 835 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Romans 5:2 ESV / 829 helpful votes

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 812 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 802 helpful votes

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 799 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

Hebrews 2:10 ESV / 795 helpful votes

For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 772 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 770 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 755 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 748 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Colossians 2:2 ESV / 744 helpful votes

That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,

Hebrews 11:2 ESV / 742 helpful votes

For by it the people of old received their commendation.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 741 helpful votes

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Philippians 3:2 ESV / 740 helpful votes

Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 738 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Luke 6:36 ESV / 736 helpful votes

Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

John 14:6 ESV / 729 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 720 helpful votes

Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 716 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Acts 10:38 ESV / 706 helpful votes

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 705 helpful votes

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 689 helpful votes

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...

John 13:34 ESV / 675 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 3:16 ESV / 667 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 4:2 ESV / 625 helpful votes

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 625 helpful votes

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 624 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 621 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Acts 10:3 ESV / 618 helpful votes

About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.”

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 606 helpful votes

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 603 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2 Thessalonians 2:15 ESV / 601 helpful votes

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.

1 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 600 helpful votes

He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,

1 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 574 helpful votes

Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.

Romans 6:4 ESV / 571 helpful votes

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 567 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 559 helpful votes

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 557 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Philippians 2:1 ESV / 547 helpful votes

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 546 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 538 helpful votes

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 536 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 535 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 534 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 529 helpful votes

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

1 Peter 2:21-22 ESV / 527 helpful votes

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 521 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Romans 7:25 ESV / 521 helpful votes

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

1 John 3:22 ESV / 520 helpful votes

And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 518 helpful votes

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 515 helpful votes

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

John 14:15 ESV / 512 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 John 2:5 ESV / 508 helpful votes

But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

Acts 18:4 ESV / 506 helpful votes

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.

James 3:9 ESV / 505 helpful votes

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 505 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Titus 2:10 ESV / 500 helpful votes

Not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

Galatians 1:14 ESV / 497 helpful votes

And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.

Luke 12:48 ESV / 497 helpful votes

But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

Philippians 2:2 ESV / 496 helpful votes

Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Genesis 4:7 ESV / 493 helpful votes

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”

1 Thessalonians 2:13-14 ESV / 491 helpful votes

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,

2 Timothy 2:1-5 ESV / 490 helpful votes

You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

Exodus 13:3 ESV / 490 helpful votes

Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

Hebrews 11:5-7 ESV / 489 helpful votes

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Romans 3:22-28 ESV / 489 helpful votes

The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. ...

James 1:25-27 ESV / 488 helpful votes

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Psalm 99:5 ESV / 488 helpful votes

Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!

Acts 2:38 ESV / 482 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 471 helpful votes

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 466 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 437 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 15:13 ESV / 433 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 430 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 418 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 403 helpful votes

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 394 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 385 helpful votes

When they see your respectful and pure conduct.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 370 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 357 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 329 helpful votes

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

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