1 Corinthians 11:1

1 Corinthians 11:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
• New International Version (NIV)Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

Context of 1 Corinthians 11:1

Copy my example, in the same way that I copy Christ's example. 2I praise you, because you remember me and everything that I taught you. You continue to obey the message that I gave to you. 3This is something that I want you to know: Christ has authority over every man, as his head. Also, the head of a woman is her husband. And the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 11:1 word by word

Μιμηταί μου γίνεσθε καθὼς κἀγὼ Χριστοῦ.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Be yeγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• followersμιμητήςmimētēs · imitatorG3402
• of meἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• even asκαθώςkathōs · as/just asG2531
• I alsoκἀγώkagō kamoi kame · and IG2504
• of ChristΧριστόςChristos · ChristG5547

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 11:1

• 1 Corinthians 4:16That is why I want you to copy my example.
• 1 Corinthians 10:33Copy my example. Whatever I do, I try to make other people happy. I do not try to do what will help me. Instead, I want to help other people. I live in that way so that God will save many people.
• Philippians 3:17My Christian friends, you should try to live in the way that I do. Carefully watch other people who live like that. We have shown you what is right.
• 1 Thessalonians 1:6In your lives also, you copied our example and the example of the Lord Jesus. When you believed our message, people caused you to have a lot of trouble. But God's Holy Spirit helped you to be very happy.
• 2 Thessalonians 3:9We could have told you to give us what we needed. We have authority to do that. But we wanted to show you how to live properly. Then you could copy our example.
• Hebrews 6:12Then you will not be slow to learn. Instead, you will copy the example of those people who continue to trust God. They continue to be patient when trouble happens to them. People like that receive what God has promised to his people.
• Romans 15:2Instead, each of us should do things that will make other believers happy. We should help them to trust God more strongly.
• Ephesians 5:1You are God's children and he loves you very much. So you must try to be like him.
• Philippians 2:4Do not think only about the things that you want to do for yourself. Each of you should think also about how you can help other people.

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 11:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Be ye followers of me - This verse certainly belongs to the preceding chapter, and is here out of all proper place and connection.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Be ye followers of me - Imitate my example in the matter now under discussion. As I deny myself; as I seek to give no offence to anyone; as I endeavor not to alarm the prejudices of others, but in all things to seek their salvation, so do you. This verse belongs to the previous chapter, and should not have been separated from it. It is the close of the discussion there. Even as I also am of Christ - I make Christ my example. He is my model in all things…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The apostle, after an exhortation to follow him, (1) corrects some abuses. (2-16) Also contentions, divisions, and disorderly celebrations of the Lord's supper. (17-22) He reminds them of the nature and design of its institution. (23-26) And directs how to attend upon it in a due manner. (27-34) Verse 1 The first verse of this chapter seems properly to be the close to the last. The apostle not only preached such doctrine as they ought to believe, but led…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1imitate me: Compare 4:16; Philippians 3:17.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-341Co 11:1-34. Censure on Disorders in Their Assemblies: Their Women Not Being Veiled, and Abuses at the Love-Feasts. 1. Rather belonging to the end of the tenth chapter, than to this chapter. followers--Greek, "imitators." of Christ--who did not please Himself (Ro 15:3); but gave Himself, at the cost of laying aside His divine glory, and dying as man, for us (Ep 5:2; Php 2:4, 5). We are to follow Christ first, and earthly teachers only so far as they…Read the comment

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Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings