KJV King James Version
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
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John 13:15
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
WEB World English Bible
For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
ASV American Standard Version
For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;
Surrounding context — John 13
12 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for [so] I am.
14 If I then, [your] Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
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1 John 2:6He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.1 Peter 2:21For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:1 Peter 3:17-18For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.Ephesians 5:2And 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.Romans 15:5Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
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