1 Peter 5:3
not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.
Ezekiel 34:4
The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
Philippians 3:17
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.
2 Thessalonians 3:9
It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Titus 2:7
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,
2 Corinthians 1:24
Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.
Deuteronomy 32:9
But the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.
Psalm 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Psalm 74:2
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
Micah 7:14
Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.
Matthew 20:25-26
But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Mark 10:42-45
And Jesus called them to him and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Luke 22:24-27
A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.
Acts 20:28
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
1 Corinthians 3:5
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
1 Corinthians 11:11
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
2 Corinthians 4:5
For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
Philippians 4:9
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me--practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
1 Thessalonians 1:5-6
because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
3 John 1:9-10
I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.