Be ye imitators of me (μιμητα μου γινεσθε). "Keep on becoming (present middle imperative) imitators of me (objective genitive)." Μ…

Therefore. Since I am your spiritual father.

Be you followers of me. Imitate me; copy my example; listen to my admonitions…

Therefore.—Because I stand in this relation, I call you to preserve, as it were, in a moral sense, that family likeness which wou…

Paul’s seeming harshness in writing this to the Corinthians was not to “shame” (GK 1956) them but to warn them of the seriousness and perverseness …

I exhort you. He now also expresses, in his own words, what he requires from them in his fatherly admonition — that, as his sons, they sho…

Wherefore, I beseech you
Though he might have used the power and authority of a father, yet he chose rather to entre…

In reproving sin, we should distinguish between sinners and their sins. Reproofs that kindly and affectionately warn are likely to reform.

T…

After censuring the Corinthians for rashly judging and presumptuously despising the apostles, the Apostle now begins to correct them. He does this …