3neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
3neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
1 The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
2 Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according unto God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall be manifested, ye shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away.
5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
5:3Neither as being lords over [God’s] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
5:3not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
5:3neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
5:3Neither as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.
5:3not as lording it over your possessions, but being models for the flock.
5:3Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.
5:3neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
5:3neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,
5:3Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.