Hebrews 13:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with sighing, for that would be harmful to you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Obey your spiritual leaders and submit to them [continually recognizing their authority over you], for they are constantly keeping watch over your souls and guarding your spiritual welfare, as men who will have to render an account [of their trust]. [Do your part to] let them do this with gladness and not with sighing and groaning, for that would not be profitable to you [either].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Rely on your leaders and defer to them, because they watch over your whole being as people who are going to be held responsible for you. They need to be able to do this with pleasure and not with complaints about you, because that wouldn’t help you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and be subject to them. For they watch over you, as if to render an account of your souls. So then, may they do this with joy, and not with grief. Otherwise, it would not be as helpful to you.

Hebrews 13:17 Cross References

1 Timothy 5:17

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching,

Hebrews 13:7

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

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Jeremiah 13:17

But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

1 Corinthians 16:16

I urge you to put yourselves at the service of such people and of everyone who works and toils with them.

Philippians 2:12

Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence but much more now in my absence, work on your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Exodus 32:31

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin; they have made for themselves gods of gold.

Philippians 2:29

Welcome him, then, in the Lord with all joy, and honor such people,

Romans 14:12

So then, each one of us will be held accountable.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

Take note of those who do not obey what we say in this letter; have nothing to do with them, so that they may be ashamed.

Hebrews 13:24

Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.

Isaiah 62:6

Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted sentinels; all day and all night they shall never be silent. You who remind the Lord, take no rest,

Philippians 4:1

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Philippians 3:18

For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears.

James 4:7

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Philippians 1:4

always in every one of my prayers for all of you, praying with joy

Luke 16:2

So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management because you cannot be my manager any longer.’

Proverbs 5:13

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.

1 Samuel 8:19

But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, “No! We are determined to have a king over us,

Genesis 16:9

The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her.”

Philippians 2:16

holding forth the word of life so that I can boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Ephesians 5:21

being subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Ezekiel 33:2

O mortal, speak to your people and say to them: If I bring the sword upon a land and the people of the land take one of their number as their sentinel,