Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
1 Peter 5:3 - English Standard Version 2016 not domineering over those in your charge, 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. |
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.
And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”
For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.
Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.
For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.
It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.