He exhorts both priests and laity to their respective duties and
recommends to all humility and watchfulness.
5:1. The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech who am myself
also an ancient and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as also a
partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come:
5:2. Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not
by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre’s
sake but voluntarily:
5:3. Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of
the flock from the heart.
5:4. And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a
never fading crown of glory.
5:5. In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do
you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud,
but to the humble he giveth grace.
5:6. Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may
exalt you in the time of visitation:
5:7. Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.
5:8. Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring
lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.
5:9. Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction
befalls, your brethren who are in the world.
5:10. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal
glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself
perfect you and confirm you and establish you.
5:11. To him be glory and empire, for ever and ever. Amen.
5:12. By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I think, I have
written briefly: beseeching and testifying that this is the true grace
of God, wherein you stand.
5:13. The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you,
saluteth you. And so doth my son, Mark.
5:14. Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you who are
in Christ Jesus. Amen.