1 Peter 5:3

1 Peter 5:3
Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

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Deuteronomy 4:20
But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

Deuteronomy 9:29
But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.

Psalms 33:12
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

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Psalms 78:70
He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

Psalms 78:72
So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.

Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?

Ezekiel 34:3
You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.

Ezekiel 34:31
And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.

Micah 5:4
And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

Luke 12:32
Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

John 10:4
When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice.

John 10:11
I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.

John 10:27
My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:

Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

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1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things were done as an example; and were put down in writing for our teaching, on whom the last days have come.

Hebrews 8:5
Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

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Acts 1:17
For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work.

Acts 13:1
Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul.

Ephesians 4:12
For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

James 3:1
Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.

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2 Thessalonians 3:7
For you yourselves are used to taking us as your example, because our life among you was ruled by order,

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Matthew 24:45
Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time?

Matthew 24:46
A blessing on that servant, who will be doing so when his lord comes.

1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.

1 Corinthians 9:26
So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:

1 Corinthians 9:27
But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

Philippians 4:1
So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.

1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?

1 Timothy 4:16
Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.

James 1:12
There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

Revelation 2:10
Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 4:10
The four and twenty rulers go down on their faces before him who is seated on the high seat, and give worship to him who is living for ever and ever, and take off their crowns before the high seat, saying,

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Mark 10:42
And Jesus made them come to him, and said to them, You see that those who are made rulers over the Gentiles are lords over them, and their great ones have authority over them.

Acts 19:16
And the man in whom the evil spirit was, jumping on them, was stronger than the two of them, and overcame them, so that they went running from that house, wounded and without their clothing.

3 John 1:10
So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.

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