1 Peter 5:4

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1 Peter 5:4

And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

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Give a shepherd's care to God's flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God's direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.

For you were going astray like sheep but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

A psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.

I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them -- namely, my servant David. He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

"'My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my regulations and carefully observe my statutes.

"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate," says the Lord who rules over all. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ,

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"When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

Dear friends, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

(Look! He is returning with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all the tribes on the earth will mourn because of him. This will certainly come to pass! Amen.)

Then I saw a large white throne and the one who was seated on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

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I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.

Thus I grant to you a kingdom, just as my Father granted to me,

If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.