1 Peter 5:1-2

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Tending the Flock of God

5 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ as well as a partaker in the glory that is to be revealed. ²Tend the flock of God that is your charge,^[a] not by constraint but willingly,^[b] not for shameful gain but eagerly,

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1 Peter 5:2 Other ancient authorities add exercising the oversight
1 Peter 5:2 Other ancient authorities add as God would have you

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