1 Peter 5:1

Peter, as a fellow elder and witness of Christ's sufferings, exhorts the church's elders. It introduces his pastoral charge to those who lead God's people.

Cross-references · 35

• Col 3:3–4For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
• Luke 24:48You are witnesses of these things.
• Rom 8:17–18and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
• 2 Jn 1:1–15The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;
• 1 Pet 5:4When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
• Ps 73:24–25You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
• Rev 1:9I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• Acts 11:30which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
• Acts 15:22–23Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.
• 1 Pet 1:7that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• 1 Jn 3:2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
• Phil 1:21–23For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
• Acts 14:23When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
• John 15:26–27“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
• 2 Tim 4:8From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
• Titus 1:5I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;
• Acts 15:4When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.
• Acts 2:32This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
• Acts 21:18The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.
• Acts 20:17From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
• Phil 1:19For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
• Acts 15:6The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
• Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
• 1 Pet 1:12To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
• 1 Tim 5:19Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.
• Acts 1:22beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
• Acts 10:39–41We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
• Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
• 1 Tim 5:1Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
• 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
• Phlm 1:9yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 1:3–5Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• 2 Cor 5:8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
• Acts 5:30–32The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
• Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

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