Exhortation to the Elders
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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:
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Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
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neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
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And when the chief Shepherd shall be manifested, ye shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Bible text: American Standard Version (1901) · Public domain