American Standard Version
"I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me. "
— 1 Corinthians 4:16, American Standard Version
“Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.”
“I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.”
“I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.”
“Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me as I also am of Christ.”
“So my desire is that you take me as your example.”
“Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.”
being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.
I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power.