1 Peter 5:3

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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

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  • Phil 3:17 : 17 Brethren, be folowers together of me, and loke on them which walke so as ye haue vs for an ensample.
  • 2 Thess 3:9 : 9 Not but that we had auctoritie, but to make our selues an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.
  • Titus 2:7 : 7 In all thynges shewyng thy selfe a paterne of good workes, in the doctrine, vncorruptnesse, grauitie, integritie,
  • Ezek 34:4 : 4 The weake haue ye not strengthened, the sicke haue ye not healed, the broken haue ye not bounde together, the dryuen away haue ye not brought againe, the lost haue ye not sought: but with force and crueltie haue ye ruled them.
  • 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou a paterne of the beleuers, in worde, in conuersation, in loue, in spirite, in fayth, in chastitie.
  • Matt 20:25-26 : 25 But Iesus called them vnto him, and sayde: Ye know that the princes of the gentiles haue dominion ouer them: and they that are great, exercise aucthoritie vpon them. 26 It shall not be so among you: But whosoeuer wyll be great among you, let hym be your minister:
  • 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 Not that we be Lordes ouer your fayth, but are helpers of your ioy. For by fayth ye stande.
  • Mark 10:42-45 : 42 But Iesus, when he had called them to hym, sayde vnto them: ye knowe, that they which seeme to beare rule among the Gentiles, raigne as Lordes ouer them: And they that be great among them, exercise aucthoritie vpon them. 43 Neuerthelesse, so shall it not be among you: but whosoeuer of you, wyll be great among you, shalbe your minister: 44 And whosoeuer of you wyll be the chiefest, shalbe seruaunt of all. 45 For the sonne of man also came not to be ministred vnto: but to minister, & to geue his lyfe, a raunsome for many.
  • Luke 22:24-27 : 24 And there was a stryfe among the, which of them shoulde seeme to be the greatest. 25 And he saide vnto them: The kinges of nations raigne ouer them, and they that haue aucthoritie vpo them, are called gracious Lordes. 26 But ye shall not be so. But he that is greatest among you, shalbe as the younger, and he that is chiefe, shalbe as he that doth minister. 27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meate, or he that serueth? Is not he that sitteth at meate? But I am among you, as he that ministreth.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heede therfore vnto your selues, and to all the flocke, ouer the which the holy ghost hath made you ouerseers, to rule the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his owne blood.
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 What is Paul? what is Apollo? Only ministers are they by whom ye beleued, euen as the Lorde gaue to euery man.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we together are Gods labourers, ye are Gods husbandrie ye are Gods buyldyng.
  • 1 Cor 11:11 : 11 Neuerthelesse, neither is the man without the woman, neither ye woman without the man, in the Lorde.
  • Mic 7:14 : 14 Therfore feede thy people with thy rod, the flocke of thyne heritage whiche dwel desolate in the wood, that they may be fed vpon the mount of Carmel, Basan, and Gilead, as aforetime.
  • Deut 32:9 : 9 For the Lordes part is his people, and Iacob is the portion of his inheritauce.
  • Ps 33:12 : 12 Blessed is the nation that hath God to be their Lorde: that people hath he chosen to be an inheritaunce for him.
  • Ps 74:2 : 2 Remember thy congregation, thou hast possest it nowe a long tyme: thou hast redeemed the rodde of thine inheritaunce, euen mount Sion wherein thou dwellest.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we preache not our selues, but Christe Iesus the Lord, and our selues your seruauntes for Iesus sake.
  • Matt 23:8-9 : 8 But be not ye called Rabbi: For one is your maister, euen Christe, and all ye are brethren. 9 And call no man your father, vpon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heauen. 10 Neither be ye called maisters: for one is your maister euen Christe.
  • Phil 4:9 : 9 Which ye haue both learned, and receaued, and hearde, and seene in me: Those thinges do, and the God of peace shalbe with you.
  • 1 Thess 1:5-6 : 5 For our Gospell came not vnto you in worde only, but also in power, and in the holy ghost, and in much certayntie, as ye knowe after what maner we were among you for your sake. 6 And ye became folowers of vs, and of the Lorde, receauyng the worde in much affliction, with ioy of the holy ghost:
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royall priesthood, an holy nation, a peculier people: that ye should shewe foorth the vertues of hym that called you out of darknesse into his marueylous lyght.
  • 3 John 1:9-9 : 9 I wrote vnto the Churche: but Diotrephes which loueth to haue the preeminence among the, receaueth vs not. 10 Wherfore yf I come, I wyll declare his deedes which he doth, iestyng on vs with malicious wordes, neither is therwith content: not only he hym selfe receaueth not the brethren: but also he forbiddeth the that woulde, and thrusteth them out of the Churche.

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