1 Peter 5:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Do not lord it over those in your charge, but be examples to the flock.

Cross References

Psalm 33:12

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.

Psalm 74:2

Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago, which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage. Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not strengthened the weak; you have not healed the sick; you have not bound up the injured; you have not brought back the strays; you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them.

Micah 7:14

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that belongs to you, which lives alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.

Numbers 18:7

But you and your sons with you shall diligently perform your priestly duties in all that concerns the altar and the area behind the curtain. I give your priesthood as a gift; any outsider who approaches shall be put to death.”

John 13:15

For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

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.

1 Corinthians 11:11

Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man or man independent of woman.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each.

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God’s coworkers, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.

2 Corinthians 1:24

I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy because you stand firm in faith.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’s sake.

Deuteronomy 32:9

the Lord’s own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.

Philippians 3:17

Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us.

Philippians 4:9

As for the things that you have learned and received and heard and noticed in me, do them, and the God of peace will be with you.

1 Thessalonians 1:7

so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

2 Thessalonians 3:9

This was not because we do not have that right but in order to give you an example to imitate.

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Titus 2:7

in all things, offering yourself as a model of good works and in your teaching offering integrity, gravity,

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.