1 Peter 5:1

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Now I have something to say to the elders in your group. I am also an elder. I myself have seen Christ’s sufferings. And I will share in the glory that will be shown to us. I beg you to

Cross References

Revelation 1:9

I am John, your fellow believer. We are together in Jesus, and we share these things: suffering, the kingdom, and patient endurance. I was on the island of Patmos because I was faithful to God’s message and to the truth of Jesus.

2 John 1:1

Greetings from the Elder. To the lady chosen by God and to her children. I truly love all of you. And I am not the only one. All those who know the truth love you in the same way.

1 Peter 5:4

Then when Christ the Ruling Shepherd comes, you will get a crown—one that will be glorious and never lose its beauty.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God. We have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.

1 Peter 1:7

These troubles test your faith and prove that it is pure. And such faith is worth more than gold. Gold can be proved to be pure by fire, but gold will ruin. When your faith is proven to be pure, the result will be praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ comes.

Acts 14:23

They also chose elders for each church and stopped eating for a period of time to pray for them. These elders were men who had put their trust in the Lord Jesus, so Paul and Barnabas put them in his care.

Acts 11:30

They gathered the money and gave it to Barnabas and Saul, who took it to the elders in Judea.

1 Peter 1:12

It was made clear to them that their service was not for themselves. They were serving you when they told about the things you have now heard. You heard them from those who told you the Good News with the help of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even the angels would like very much to know more about these things you were told.

Philemon 1:9

But I am not commanding you; I am asking you to do it out of love. I, Paul, am an old man now, and I am a prisoner for Christ Jesus.

Titus 1:5

I left you in Crete so that you could finish doing what still needed to be done. And I also left you there so that you could choose men to be elders in every town.

2 Timothy 4:8

Now, a prize is waiting for me—the crown that will show I am right with God. The Lord, the judge who judges rightly, will give it to me on that Day. Yes, he will give it to me and to everyone else who is eagerly looking forward to his coming.

1 Timothy 5:19

Don’t listen to someone who accuses an elder. You should listen to them only if there are two or three others who can say what the elder did wrong.

1 Timothy 5:1

Don’t speak angrily to an older man. But talk to him as if he were your father. Treat the younger men like brothers.

Philippians 1:19

because I know that your prayers and the help the Spirit of Jesus Christ gives me will cause this trouble to result in my freedom.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that our body—the tent we live in here on earth—will be destroyed. But when that happens, God will have a home for us to live in. It will not be the kind of home people build here. It will be a home in heaven that will continue forever.

Acts 21:18

The next day Paul went with us to visit James, and all the elders were there.

Acts 20:28

Be careful for yourselves and for all the people God has given you. The Holy Spirit gave you the work of caring for this flock. You must be shepherds to the church of God, the people he bought with his own blood.

Acts 20:17

In Miletus Paul sent a message back to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church in Ephesus to come to him.

Acts 15:6

Then the apostles and the elders gathered to study this problem.

Acts 15:4

When the men arrived in Jerusalem, the apostles, the elders, and the whole church welcomed them. Paul, Barnabas, and the others told about all that God had done with them.

Acts 2:32

So Jesus is the one God raised from death. We are all witnesses of this. We saw him.

Acts 1:8

But the Holy Spirit will come on you and give you power. You will be my witnesses. You will tell people everywhere about me—in Jerusalem, in the rest of Judea, in Samaria, and in every part of the world.”

2 Corinthians 5:8

So I say that we have confidence. And we really want to be away from this body and be at home with the Lord.

Acts 3:15

And so you killed the one who gives life! But God raised him from death. We are witnesses of this—we saw it with our own eyes.

Hebrews 12:1

We have all these great people around us as examples. Their lives tell us what faith means. So we, too, should run the race that is before us and never quit. We should remove from our lives anything that would slow us down and the sin that so often makes us fall.

1 Peter 4:13

But you should be happy that you are sharing in Christ’s sufferings. You will be happy and full of joy when Christ shows his glory.

3 John 1:1

Greetings from the Elder. To my dear friend Gaius, a person I truly love.