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Shepherd the Flock

1 The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a awitness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the bglory that will be revealed:  
2 aShepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, bnot by compulsion but willingly, cnot for dishonest gain but eagerly;  
3 nor as abeing lords over bthose entrusted to you, but cbeing examples to the flock;  
4 and when athe Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive bthe crown of glory that does not fade away.  

Submit to God, Resist the Devil

5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, aall of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for
b“God resists the proud,
But cgives grace to the humble.”  
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1 Peter 5:1

Who am a fellow-elder (o sunpresbuterov). Earliest use of this compound in an inscription of BC 120 for fellow-elders (alderman) in a town, here only in N.T., in eccles. writers. For the word presbuterov in the technical sense of officers in a Christian church (like elder in the local synagogues of the Jews) see Acts 11:30; Acts 20:17. It is noteworthy that here Peter the Apostle (I Peter 1:1) calls himself an elder along with (sun) the other "elders."

A witness (martuv). This is what Jesus had said they must be (Acts 1:8) and what Peter claimed to be (Acts 3:15; Acts 10:39). So Paul was to be a martuv (Acts 22:15).

Who am also a partaker (o kai koinwnov). "The partner also," "the partaker also." See Luke 5:10; II Corinthians 1:7; II Peter 1:4. See same idea in Romans 8:17. In Galatians 3:23; Romans 8:18 we have almost this about the glory about to be revealed to us where mellw as here is used with the infinitive.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 5:1:

Acts 3:18
1 Peter 1:1
1 Peter 1:11
1 Peter 5:5
2 Peter 1:4

 

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