3. Exhortations For & About Elders
1 Peter 5:1-4

4. Operative Words In The Text
1 Peter 5:1-2
KJV elder feed oversight
NKJV elder shepherd overseers
ASV elder tend oversight
NASB elder shepherd oversight
ESV elder shepherd oversight

5. Meanings Elder (presbuteros) older men characterized by wisdom
Bishop (episcopos) the work performed; seeing it getsdone
Shepherd (poimen) one who cares for, provides, guards

6. Other Instances
1 Pet. 5: Tim. 3:1 Phil. 1:1 Titus 1:5

7. Other Instances 1 Pet. 5:1 1 Tim. 3:1 Phil. 1:1 Titus 1:5
KJV elder bishop bishop elder
NKJV elder overseer bishop elder
ASV elder bishop bishop elder
NASB elder overseer overseer elder
ESV elder overseer overseer elder

8. A Practical Example
Acts 20:17, 28

9. Acts 20:17, 28 A Practical Example KJV elders overseers shepherd
NKJV elders overseers shepherd
ASV elders bishops feed
NASB elders overseers shepherd
ESV elders overseers care

10. Contrasts Of 1 Peter 5:2-3 Not by constraint1 BUT willingly
Not for filthy lucre2
BUT
a ready mind
Not as lords
BUT
as examples
1some have “compulsion”; Vine’s has force
2advantageous gain in anything

11. 1 Peter 5:1: “…and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed”
1 Peter 5:4: “And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away”