shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not by compulsion but willingly, in accordance with God, and not greedily but eagerly, and not as lording it over those under your care[a], but being examples for the flock. And when[b] the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 5:3 Literally “the portion”
  2. 1 Peter 5:4 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“appears”)