83 Bible Verses about Being an Example to Others

Here are 83 Bible verses about being an example to others, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

1 Timothy 4:12 KJV

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.

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Titus 2:7 KJV

⁷ In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

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Matthew 5:16 KJV

¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

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Ephesians 5:1 KJV

¹ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

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John 3:16-21 KJV

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. ¹⁸ He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the …

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1 Corinthians 11:1 KJV

¹ Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

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Philippians 3:17 KJV

¹⁷ Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

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Romans 14:1-23 KJV

¹ Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. ² For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. ³ Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. ⁴ Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own …

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Proverbs 6:23 KJV

²³ For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

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Matthew 23:3 KJV

³ All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

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1 John 4:16 KJV

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

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1 Thessalonians 1:7 KJV

⁷ So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

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1 Corinthians 10:31 KJV

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

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2 Corinthians 5:20 KJV

²⁰ Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

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Romans 12:1 KJV

¹ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 KJV

¹³ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. ¹⁴ For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

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1 Peter 2:21 KJV

²¹ For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

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Romans 13:13-14 KJV

¹³ Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. ¹⁴ But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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John 13:35 KJV

³⁵ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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1 Peter 5:3 KJV

³ Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being examples to the flock.

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Hebrews 13:7 KJV

⁷ Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

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Romans 15:5-6 KJV

⁵ Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: ⁶ That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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3 John 1:11 KJV

¹¹ Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

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James 3:1 KJV

¹ My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

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2 Timothy 2:22 KJV

²² Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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Colossians 3:17 KJV

¹⁷ And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

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Ephesians 5:8-9 KJV

⁸ For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: ⁹ (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

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1 Corinthians 6:10 KJV

¹⁰ Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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Matthew 7:20 KJV

²⁰ Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

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Proverbs 3:34 KJV

³⁴ Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

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Hebrews 9:27 KJV

²⁷ And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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Acts 20:35 KJV

³⁵ I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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Hebrews 12:14 KJV

¹⁴ Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

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Hebrews 6:10 KJV

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

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2 Thessalonians 3:9 KJV

⁹ Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

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Ecclesiastes 10:1 KJV

¹ Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

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Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 KJV

¹ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: ² A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; ³ A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; ⁴ A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; …

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1 Timothy 2:2 KJV

² For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

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Philippians 4:8 KJV

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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Philippians 2:3 KJV

³ Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

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Galatians 6:9 KJV

⁹ And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

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John 13:15 KJV

¹⁵ For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

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Isaiah 40:28 KJV

²⁸ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

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Proverbs 11:25 KJV

²⁵ The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

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2 Timothy 2:15 KJV

¹⁵ Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Colossians 3:13 KJV

¹³ Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

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Romans 12:8 KJV

⁸ Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

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John 15:1-2 KJV

¹ I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ² Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

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John 11:35 KJV

³⁵ Jesus wept.

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Luke 6:38 KJV

³⁸ Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

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Proverbs 22:6 KJV

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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Psalm 5:3 KJV

³ My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

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1 Kings 15:26 KJV

²⁶ And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

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Genesis 5:3 KJV

³ And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

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1 Peter 1:22 KJV

²² Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

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Hebrews 13:16 KJV

¹⁶ But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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Titus 2:3-5 KJV

³ The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; ⁴ That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, ⁵ To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 KJV

⁷ For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; ⁸ Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: ⁹ Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

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John 15:13 KJV

¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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John 15:12 KJV

¹² This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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Matthew 25:40 KJV

⁴⁰ And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

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Proverbs 28:27 KJV

²⁷ He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

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Deuteronomy 15:11 KJV

¹¹ For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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1 John 4:7 KJV

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

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1 John 3:17 KJV

¹⁷ But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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1 Peter 4:10 KJV

¹⁰ As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

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James 1:19 KJV

¹⁹ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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Titus 3:8 KJV

⁸ This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

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1 Thessalonians 4:9 KJV

⁹ But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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1 Thessalonians 1:6 KJV

⁶ And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.

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Philippians 2:4 KJV

⁴ Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

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Ephesians 5:2 KJV

² And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

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Galatians 5:22-23 KJV

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, ²³ Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

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Galatians 5:6 KJV

⁶ For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

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2 Corinthians 1:12 KJV

¹² For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

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Romans 12:15 KJV

¹⁵ Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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John 1:1-51 KJV

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it …

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Luke 16:1-31 KJV

¹ And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. ² And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. ³ Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the …

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Luke 12:33-34 KJV

³³ Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. ³⁴ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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Luke 6:40 KJV

⁴⁰ The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.

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Mark 10:45 KJV

⁴⁵ For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

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