You have not strengthened the weak, healed the ill, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
1 Peter 5:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Not domineering [as arrogant, dictatorial, and overbearing persons] over those in your charge, but being examples (patterns and models of Christian living) to the flock (the congregation). American Standard Version (1901) neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock. Common English Bible Don’t shepherd by ruling over those entrusted to your care, but become examples to the flock. Catholic Public Domain Version not so as to dominate by means of the clerical state, but so as to be formed into a flock from the heart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Neither as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart. |
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the ill, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that is your possession. They live alone in a woodland surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in ancient times.
But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but an unauthorised person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.’
For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done for you.
Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.
In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, and man is not independent of woman.
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.
I do not mean that we lord it over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in your faith.
For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.
Join in imitating me, brothers and sisters, and pay careful attention to those who live according to the example you have in us.
Do what you have learned and received and heard from me, and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
As a result, you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
It is not that we don’t have the right to support, but we did it to make ourselves an example to you so that you would imitate us.
Don’t let anyone despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, , in faith, and in purity.
in everything. Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching.
But you are a chosen race, ,, a royal priesthood, , a holy nation, , a people for his possession, , so that you may proclaim the praises ,, of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.