1 Corinthians 4:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

1 Corinthians 4:16 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Philippians 3:17
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
1 Corinthians 11:1
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:9
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
1 Thessalonians 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:
Philippians 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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-16)

Here Paul challenges their regard to him as their father. He tells them, 1. That what he had written was not for their reproach, but admonition; not with the gall of an enemy, but the bowels of a father (1 Cor. 4:14): I write not to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. Note, In reproving for sin, we should have a tender regard to the reputation, as well as the reformation, of the sinn…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. be ye followers of me--literally, “imitators,” namely, in my ways, which be in Christ (1Co 4:17; 1Co 11:1), not in my crosses (1Co 4:8-13; Ac 26:29; Ga 4:12).