16Why I beseech you, be you followers of me.


In Context

13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things to this day.

14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

16 Why I beseech you, be you followers of me.

17 For this cause have I sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

1 Corinthians 4:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:16Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:16I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16I entreat you therefore, be my imitators.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:16I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;