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Bible Verses About Being an Example
Find Bible verses about being an example — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about being an example?
The Bible addresses being an example with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
John 13:15
“For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.”
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2 Thessalonians 3:9
“not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.”
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1 Thessalonians 1:7
“so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.”
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John 13:14
“If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.”
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2 Peter 2:6
“and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;”
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Deuteronomy 32:31
“For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.”
Philippians 1:6
“being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
Psalms 139:13
“For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.”
Hebrews 2:18
“For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.”
1 John 3:16
“By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.”
John 16:21
“A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the w...”
Luke 22:44
“Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.”
Luke 16:23
“In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.”
Luke 12:25
“Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?”
Luke 8:25
“He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they marveled, saying one to another, "Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"”
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Titus 2:7 — “in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, serious...”
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