| Chapter 5 |
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Elders who are among you, I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker, |
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feed the flock of God that is among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, |
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neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock, |
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and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory. |
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In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace; |
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be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, |
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all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you. |
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Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up, |
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whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished. |
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And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you; |
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to Him is the glory, and the power -- to the ages and the ages! Amen. |
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Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few words I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood. |
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Salute you doth the assembly in Babylon jointly elected, and Markus my son. |
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Salute ye one another in a kiss of love; peace to you all who are in Christ Jesus! Amen. |