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1 Peter 3:8

So finally I conclude with this:

all of you be like-minded and harmonious (like music that is please to the ear), feeling and expressing mutual sympathy, support, and loyalty back and forth to each other; be fond of each other with a brotherly love and have a deep awareness of and sympathy for each others suffering; and have a humble opinion of yourselves and a deep sense of your own moral littleness apart from Christ.

1 Peter 4:7 & 8:

Since the conclusion and termination of all things is approaching, you should certainly therefore be of a sober and sound mind, self-controlled in your opinions and passions, being marked by prudence, modesty, and wise self-restraint so that you can be earnest in your prayers and worship.

And more important than anything else, make your highest priority in everything to hold yourselves to be constantly intentionally, purposefully, and fervently intense in your self-sacrificing love and benevolent affection among the whole lot of you, because self-sacrificing love and benevolent affection covers over and hinders the knowledge of an indefinite number of sins, offenses, errors, mistakes, and unmet expectations.

(1) Because of what I just wrote about judgment in the church and about suffering, I want to call aside the presbyters (elders) who have been put in position in your local church and beseech them and implore them from where I sit as a co-presbyter (I too am an elder) as well as a witness of the hardships, pain, and emotions of our Messiah and as one who will also share the apparent glory when it is revealed:

(2) Tend to the flock of God which you are positioned among—supervise and feed them and beware to take diligent oversight of this flock.

Not because you are compelled to do so,

But because you have willfully volunteered.

Not because it pays well or advances your social status,

But with liveliness and eagerness of mind.

(3)And also without being domineering and subjecting the flock under your care like worldly overlords do,

Because these people are the portion of God’s flock that He has assigned to your care, be a model for them to follow.

(4)  And when the Head Shepherd comes and manifests Himself, you will be reward the honor of a crown of dignity and praise—the glory of which will never fade.