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Example: Good Nehemiah 5:8–19

and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say. / So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies? / I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.

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Example: Good Psalm 101:2

I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.

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Example: Good 1 Thessalonians 1:6–8

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering. / As a result, you have become an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. / For not only did the message of the Lord ring out from you to Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone out to every place, so that we have no need to say anything more.

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Example: Good 1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

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Example: Good Titus 2:7, 8

In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works. In your teaching show integrity, dignity, / and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

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Example: Good Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

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Example: Good James 5:10, 11

Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. / See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

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Example: Good 1 Peter 2:11–25

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul. / Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us. / Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,

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Example: Good 1 Peter 3:5, 6

For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands, / just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.

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Example: Good 1 Peter 5:3

not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

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