3neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.


In Context

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.

1 Peter 5:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:3Neither as being lords over [God’s] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:3not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:3neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:3Neither as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3not as lording it over your possessions, but being models for the flock.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:3Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.