16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
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.
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 sin…
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