1 Corinthiens 4:16

16 Je vous en supplie donc, soyez mes imitateurs.

1 Corinthiens 4:16 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:16

Wherefore, I beseech you
Though he might have used the power and authority of a father, yet he chose rather to entreat and beseech them; saying,

be ye followers of me;
for who should children follow, but their parents? The Vulgate Latin, adds, "as I am of Christ"; so Chrysostom in his time read it; and Beza says he found it so written in one Greek exemplar; and so it is in one of Stephens's; it seems to have crept in from ( 1 Corinthians 11:1 ) . However, though it might not be now expressed by the apostle, it is to be supposed; for he never desired any to follow him any more, or further than he followed Christ; particularly he was desirous that these his spiritual children would follow him, and abide by him in the doctrine of a crucified Christ, he had preached among them, and not the false apostles, who had represented his ministry as weak and foolish; and in his life and conversation, especially in his humble carriage and deportment among them, and in his tender love and affection for them; observing their growing pride, haughtiness, and vain opinion of themselves, and those unnatural divisions and animosities which were fomented among them; and also in bearing reproach and persecution cheerfully and patiently, for the Gospel of Christ; a detail of which he had given them in some preceding verses.

1 Corinthiens 4:16 In-Context

14 Je n'écris point ces choses pour vous faire honte; mais je vous avertis comme mes chers enfants.

15 Car, vous auriez dix mille maîtres en Christ, que vous n'auriez pas plusieurs pères; car c'est moi qui vous ai engendrés en Jésus-Christ, par l'Évangile.

16 Je vous en supplie donc, soyez mes imitateurs.

17 C'est pour cela que je vous ai envoyé Timothée, qui est mon fils bien-aimé et fidèle, dans le Seigneur; il vous fera ressouvenir de mes voies en Christ, et de quelle manière j'enseigne partout dans toutes les Églises.

18 Or, quelques-uns se sont enflés d'orgueil, comme si je ne devais pas venir chez vous.