Blessed is the nation whose God is YHWH, the people whom ʜᴇ has chosen for ʜɪꜱ own inheritance.
1 Peter 5:3 - Y'all Version Bible not lording it over those entrusted to y’all, 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 YHWH, the people whom ʜᴇ has chosen for ʜɪꜱ own inheritance.
Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
Y’all haven’t strengthened the diseased or healed the sick. Y’all haven’t bound up what was broken and haven’t brought back what was driven away. Y’all haven’t sought that which was lost, but y’all have ruled over them with violence and cruelty.
Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest. Let them feed in the middle of fertile pasture land, in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
You and your sons, y’all are to carry out y’all’s priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. Y’all must serve. I give the service of the priesthood to y’all as a gift. The stranger who comes near must be put to death.”
I have given y’all an example so that y’all should also do what I have done for y’all.
Y’all are to keep watch over yourselves and all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made y’all overseers, to shepherd the church of God which ʜᴇ purchased with the blood of ʜɪꜱ own.
However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor man independent of woman.
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but deacons through whom y’all believed, and as the Lord gave to each one?
For we are God’s fellow workers. Y’all are God’s field, God’s building.
Not that we lord it over y’all’s faith, but are colaborers with y’all for your* joy, because it is by faith y’all stand firm.
For it is not ourselves that we preach, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as y’all’s servants for Jesus’s sake.
For YHWH’s portion is ʜɪꜱ people. Jacob is the lot of ʜɪꜱ inheritance.
Y’all should imitate me, siblings, and observe those who are living this way, just as y’all have us as an example.
Whatever y’all learned and received, and whatever y’all heard and saw in me–you* are do those things, and the God of peace will be with y’all.
As a result, y’all became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
This was not because we don’t have that right, but in order to offer ourselves an example for y’all to imitate us.
Don’t let anyone despise your youth, but be an example to those who believe, in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.
In everything show yourself to be an example of excellent works. In teaching, show integrity, dignity,
But y’all are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy ethnic group, a people of God’s own possession, that y’all may proclaim the virtues of ʜɪᴍ who called y’all out of darkness into ʜɪꜱ marvelous light.