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He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash.
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Wisdom Better Than Folly
I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me:
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I will set my face against them and make them an example and a byword. I will remove them from my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.
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I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.
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For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.
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Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
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These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.
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Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.
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The Law and the Promise
Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case.
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Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children
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Following Paul’s Example
All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.
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Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.
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For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you,
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But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.
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Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
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Examples of Disloyalty and Loyalty
You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
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In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness
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Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
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Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go.
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Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
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not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
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if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
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In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
