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

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

as.

Ezekiel 34:4 The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you have not healed, that which was broken you have not bound up, and that which was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you sought that which was lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and with a high hand.

Matthew 20:25,26 But Jesus called them to him and said: You know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them; and that they that are the greater, exercise power upon them. . . .

Matthew 23:8-10 But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master: and all you are brethren. . . .

Mark 10:42-45 But Jesus calling them, saith to them: You know that they who seem to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them: and their princes have power over them. . . .

Luke 22:24-27 And there was also a strife amongst them, which of them should seem to be the greater. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:5,9 The ministers of him whom you have believed: and to every one as the Lord hath given. . . .

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2 Corinthians 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord: and ourselves your servants through Jesus.

3 John 1:9,10 I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, doth not receive us. . . .

being lords over.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Deuteronomy 32:9 But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.

Psalm 74:2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.

Micah 7:14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in Basan and Galaad, according to the days of old.

Acts 20:28 Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood.

but.

1 Corinthians 11:11 But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

Philippians 3:17 Be ye followers of me, brethren: and observe them who walk so as you have our model.

Philippians 4:9 The things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, these do ye: and the God of peace shall be with you.

1 Thessalonians 1:5,6 For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power also: and in the Holy Ghost and in much fulness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes. . . .

2 Thessalonians 3:9 Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.

1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

Titus 2:7 In all things shew thyself an example of good works, in doctrine, in integrity, in gravity,