1 Peter 5:3
nor as lording it over those allotted to you by God, but becoming examples to the flock.
Ezekiel 34:4
You have not made the weak strong, nor have you healed the sick, nor have you bound up the broken. You have not brought again those driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but you have ruled them with force and with cruelty.
Philippians 3:17
Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who walk this way, for you have us for a pattern.
2 Thessalonians 3:9
(not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example to you, to imitate us).
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one despise your youth, but be an example of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Titus 2:7
In all things having shown yourself a pattern of good works: in the doctrine, purity, sensibleness, without corruption,
2 Corinthians 1:24
Not that we have dominion over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.
Deuteronomy 32:9
For Jehovah's portion is His people. Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.
Psalm 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah; the people He has chosen for His inheritance.
Psalm 74:2
Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, the rod of Your inheritance which You have redeemed; this mount Zion in which You have dwelt.
Micah 7:14
Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in the woods, in the midst of Carmel; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Matthew 20:25-26
But Jesus called them and said, You know that the rulers of the nations exercise dominion over them, and they who are great exercise authority over them.
Matthew 23:8-10
But you must not be called Rabbi, for One is your teacher, Christ, and you are all brothers.
Mark 10:42-45
But Jesus called them and said to them, You know that they who are accounted rulers over the nations exercise lordship over them. And their great ones exercise authority on them.
Luke 22:24-27
And there was also a dispute among them as to which of them seems to be greater.
Acts 20:28
Therefore take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He has purchased with His own blood.
1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each?
1 Corinthians 3:9
For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.
1 Corinthians 11:11
But neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
Philippians 4:9
Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.
1 Thessalonians 1:5-6
For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
3 John 1:9-10
I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, did not receive us.