I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.

Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,