1 Peter 5:1-9 ▼

1 The elders which are among you, I exhort, whiche am also an elder, & a wytnesse of the afflictions of Christe, and also a partaker of the glory that shalbe opened:

2 Feede you God his flocke, whiche is committed vnto you, takyng the ouersight of them not as compelled therto, but wyllyngly, not for the desyre of fylthy lucre, but of a good mynde:

3 Not as though ye were Lordes ouer God his heritage: but that ye be an ensample to the flocke.

4 And when the chiefe shephearde shall appeare, ye shall receaue an incorruptible crowne of glory.

5 Likewise ye younger, submit your selues vnto the elder: Submit your selues euery man one to another, decke your selues inwardly in lowlynes of mynde: For God resisteth the proude, and geueth grace to the humble.

6 Submit your selues therfore vnder the mightie hande of God, that he may exalt you when the tyme is come.

7 Cast all your care vpon hym, for he careth for you.

8 Be sober, & watche, for your aduersarie the deuyll, as a roaryng Lion walketh about seking who he may deuour:

9 Whom resist stedfast in the fayth, knowyng that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the worlde.