12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 4:16 — Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
• 1Cor 9:6 — Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
• 1Cor 11:1 — Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
• 1Pet 5:3 — Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
• 1Thess 1:5 — For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
• 1Thess 1:6 — And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
• 1Thess 2:9 — For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
• 1Thess 2:10 — Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
• 1Thess 4:11 — And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
• 1Tim 4:12 — Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
• 1Tim 4:12 — Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
• 2Cor 7:2 — Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
• 2Kgs 4:7 — Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
• 2Thess 3:6 — Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
• 2Thess 3:6 — Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
• 2Thess 3:9 — Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
• 2Thess 3:9 — Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
• Acts 20:18 — And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,
• Deut 2:6 — Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
• John 21:3 — Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
• Phil 3:17 — Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
• Phil 3:17 — Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
• Phil 4:9 — Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
• Prov 31:18 — She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
• Titus 2:7 — In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,