I Corinthians 11:1:
11:1You must become imitators of me according as I also of Christ.
Paul instructs the holy-people (sanctified-people, Christians, saints, children of the only true God) that they must become imitators (mimics or followers) of him according as he is also an imitator – of whom? Christ. The standard is the resurrected Christ Jesus our Lord, not Paul himself nor anyone else. Paul became an imitator of Christ, and this is the only reason given as to in-which capacity they were to imitate Paul – as he imitates Christ.
They did not have to eat or drink the same things as Paul, they did not have to wear the same kind of clothes, they did not have to physically walk or talk the same way, they did not have to work at the same kind of job, they did not have to have the same hairstyle – they were to become imitators of Paul according as he also became an imitator of Christ, and thereby they too would become imitators of Christ.
[Reference: I Corinthians 4:14-17; Philippians 3:17; I Thessalonians 1:6; II Thessalonians 3:7-9; Hebrews 6:12, and 13:7.]
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