Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep.

Again, a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me? Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my sheep, said Jesus.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.

In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.

And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others.

Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;