Occult Practices

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”

“So I will put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not imitate you.

Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

Imitating Christ’s Humility

Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,

You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit.

For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews

We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate.

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

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

Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.