1 Peter 5:1
The elders which are amonge you I exhorte which am also an elder and a witnes of the affliccions of Christ and also a partaker of the glory that shalbe opened:
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2se that ye fede Christes flocke which is amonge you takynge the oversyght of them
Cross References
Luke 24:48And ye are witnesses of these thinges.
Acts 1:8but ye shall receave power of the holy goost which shall come on you. And ye shall be witnesses vnto me in Ierusalem and in all Iewrye and in Samary and even vnto the worldes ende.
Acts 2:32This Iesus hath God raysyd vp wherof we all are witnesses.
Acts 5:30The God of oure fathers raysed vp Iesus whom ye slewe and hanged on tre.
Acts 11:30Which thinge they also dyd and sent it to the elders by the hondes of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts 15:4And when they were come to Ierusalem they were receaved of the congregacion and of the Apostles and elders. And they declared what thinges God had done by 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 →