Verse 3

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

Referenced Verses

  • Phil 3:17 : 17 become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;
  • 2 Thess 3:9 : 9 not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;
  • Titus 2:7 : 7 concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,
  • Ezek 34:4 : 4 The weak ye have not strengthened, And the sick one ye have not healed, And the broken ye have not bound up, And the driven away have not brought back, And the lost ye have not sought, And with might ye have ruled them and with rigour.
  • 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;
  • Matt 20:25-26 : 25 and Jesus having called them near, said, `Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them, 26 but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;
  • 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.
  • Mark 10:42-45 : 42 but Jesus having called them near, saith to them, `Ye have known that they who are considered to rule the nations do exercise lordship over them, and their great ones do exercise authority upon them; 43 but not so shall it be among you; but whoever may will to become great among you, he shall be your minister, 44 and whoever of you may will to become first, he shall be servant of all; 45 for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
  • Luke 22:24-27 : 24 And there happened also a strife among them -- who of them is accounted to be greater. 25 And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors; 26 but ye `are' not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering; 27 for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
  • 1 Cor 11:11 : 11 but neither `is' a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,
  • Mic 7:14 : 14 Rule Thou Thy people with Thy rod, The flock of Thine inheritance, Dwelling alone `in' a forest in the midst of Carmel, They enjoy Bashan and Gilead as in days of old.
  • Deut 32:9 : 9 For Jehovah's portion `is' His people, Jacob `is' the line of His inheritance.
  • Ps 33:12 : 12 O the happiness of the nation whose God `is' Jehovah, Of the people He did choose, For an inheritance to Him.
  • Ps 74:2 : 2 Remember Thy company. Thou didst purchase of old, Thou didst redeem the rod of Thy inheritance, This mount Zion -- Thou didst dwell in it.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;
  • Matt 23:8-9 : 8 `And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren; 9 and ye may not call `any' your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens, 10 nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director -- the Christ.
  • Phil 4:9 : 9 the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.
  • 1 Thess 1:5-6 : 5 because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you, 6 and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
  • 3 John 1:9-9 : 9 I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us; 10 because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.