1 Thessalonians 1:6

Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.

Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

as sorrowful but always rejoicing, as poor but making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also suffered the same things at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we did not act in an unruly manner among you,

preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and teaching.