1 Peter 5:3

Weymouth NT

not lording it over your Churches but proving yourselves patterns for the flock to imitate.

Cross References

John 13:15

For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.

Acts 20:28

»Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has placed you to take the oversight for Him and act as shepherds to the Church of God, which He has bought with His own blood.«

1 Corinthians 11:11

Yet, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man independent of woman.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are just God's servants, through whose efforts, and as the Lord granted power to each, you accepted the faith.

1 Corinthians 3:9

Apollos and I are simply fellow workers for and with God, and you are God's field– God's building.

2 Corinthians 1:24

Not that we want to lord it over you in respect of your faith –we do, however, desire to help your joy– for in the matter of your faith you are standing firm.

2 Corinthians 4:5

(For we do not proclaim ourselves, but we proclaim Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bondservants for the sake of Jesus.)

Philippians 3:17

Brethren, vie with one another in imitating me, and carefully observe those who follow the example which we have set you.

Philippians 4:9

The doctrines and the line of conduct which I taught you –both what you heard and what you saw in me– hold fast to them; and God who gives peace will be with you.

1 Thessalonians 1:7

so that you became a pattern to all the believers throughout Macedonia and Greece.

2 Thessalonians 3:9

This was not because we had not a claim upon you, but it arose from a desire to set you an example–for you to imitate us.

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one think slightingly of you because you are a young man; but in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, be an example for your fellow Christians to imitate.

Titus 2:7

and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a priesthood of kingly lineage, a holy nation, a people belonging specially to God, that you may make known the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light.