^{1 Ref} The elders 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 Ref} Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to `the will of' God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

^{3 Ref} neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.