1 Peter 5:1

The elders that are among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a sharer in the glory that is to be revealed.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

In Context

2Act as shepherds to the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for the sake of sordid gain, but from readiness of mind:

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Cross References

Luke 24:48You are witnesses of these things.

Acts 1:8But you shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses for me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the most distant part of the earth.

Acts 2:32This Jesus has God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.

Acts 5:30The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom you slew by hanging him on a tree.

Acts 11:30which also they did; and they sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Acts 15:4When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and the apostles and elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 5:1

In which the apostle gives particular directions, first to the elders, how to behave themselves towards their flock ( ver. 1-4 ); then to the younger, to be obedient and humble, and to cast their care upon God, ver. 5-7 . He then exhorts all to sobriety, watchfulness against temptations, and stedfastness in the faith, praying earnestly for them; and so concludes his epistle with a solemn doxology, mutual salutations, and his apostolical benediction. Read the whole commentary →

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