16 So my desire is that you take me as your example.
Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.
So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.
And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;
The things which came to you by my teaching and preaching, and which you saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.
When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice. They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them.
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Commentary on 1 Corinthians 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
In this chapter the apostle,
1Cr 4:1-6
Here,
1Cr 4:7-13
Here the apostle improves the foregoing hint to a caution against pride and self-conceit, and sets forth the temptations the Corinthians had to despise him, from the difference of their circumstances.
1Cr 4:14-16
Here Paul challenges their regard to him as their father. He tells them,
1Cr 4:17-21
Here,