1 Peter 5:1-9 ▼

1 I exhort the elders among you? as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ and a partaker of the glory being about to be revealed:

2 Shepherd the flock of God among you?, exercising oversight, not under compulsion but willingly according to God; and not for shameful gain but eagerly,

3 not as exercising lordship over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.

4 And on the Chief Shepherd having been made manifest, you? will receive the unfading crown of glory.

5 Likewise, younger ones, be subject to your elders. And all, gird on humility to one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you? in due time,

7 having cast all your? anxiety on Him, because with Him there is care about you?.

8 Be sober-minded; be alert. Your? adversary the devil prowls around as a roaring lion seeking whom to swallow up,

9 whom you? should resist, firm in the faith, knowing the same sufferings in your? brotherhood to be experienced in the world.