Bible Verses About Example: Christ, our example

But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

and whoever wants to be first must be the slave of all.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.

Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”

For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus,

so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God.

Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,