Bible Verses about “being a good example”
The Bible contains 44 verses about being a good example across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.”
“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
“‹Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.›”
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:”
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
“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.”
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.”
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”
“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.”
“Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”
“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.”
“This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].”
“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.”
“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,”
“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”
“Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].”
“¶ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;”
“Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;”
“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.”
“¶ Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”
“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”
“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:”
“¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;”
“For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.”
“Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
“Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”
“(For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)”
“Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.”
“For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.”
“In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine [shewing] uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,”
“But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.”