NEW TESTAMENT

1 Peter 5:3

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not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

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Verse 3. Neither as domineering over the clergy. [2] This may not only signify over the inferior ministers, who were subject to the bishops or priests, but also over the particular flocks which fell to their share, or to their lot to take care of. See the Greek. Witham.

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