1 Peter 5:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 5

¹The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

1 Peter 5:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Colossians 3:3-4
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. …
Luke 24:48
And ye are witnesses of these things.
Romans 8:17-18
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. …
2 John 1:1
The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
1 Peter 5:4
And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Here we may observe, I. The persons to whom this exhortation is given—to the presbyters, pastors, and spiritual guides of the church, elders by office, rather than by age, ministers of those churches to whom he wrote this epistle. II. The person who gives this exhortation—the apostle Peter: I exhort; and, to give force to this exhortation, he tells them he was their brother-presbyter or fellow-eld…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

1Pe 5:1-14. Exhortations to Elders, Juniors, and All in General. Parting Prayer. Conclusion. 1. elders--alike in office and age (1Pe 5:5). I ... also an elder--To put one’s self on a level with those whom we exhort, gives weight to one’s exhortations (compare 2Jo 1, 2). Peter, in true humility for the Gospel’s sake, does not put forward his apostleship here, wherein he presided over the elders. In…