1. The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
2. Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according unto God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3. neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
4. And when the chief Shepherd shall be manifested, ye shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away.