1 Peter 5:3

Elders must lead by example rather than by domineering over those entrusted to them. It guards church leadership against the abuse of authority.

Cross-references · 23

• Ezek 34:4You haven’t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.
• Phil 3:17Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
• 2 Th 3:9not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
• 2 Cor 1:24Not that we control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
• Matt 20:25–26But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
• Titus 2:7in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
• 1 Tim 4:12Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
• Matt 23:8–10But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
• 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.
• Mark 10:42–45Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
• Luke 22:24–27There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.
• 2 Cor 4:5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;
• 3 Jn 1:9–10I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
• Mic 7:14Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
• Ps 74:2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
• 1 Th 1:5–6and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
• Phil 4:9The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
• Ps 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• 1 Cor 11:11Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
• Deut 32:9For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
• 1 Cor 3:5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
• 1 Cor 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

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