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17 Obey your [spiritual] leaders and submit to them [recognizing their authority over you], for they are keeping watch over your souls and continually guarding your spiritual welfare as those who will give an account [of their stewardship of you]. Let them do this with joy and not with grief and groans, for this would be of no benefit to you.

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17 Continue to obey peithō · ho your hymeis leaders hēgeomai and kai submit hypeikō to them, for gar they autos keep watch agrypneō over hyper · ho your hymeis souls psychē as hōs those who must give apodidōmi an account logos. Let hina them do poieō this houtos with meta joy chara, and kai not with groaning stenazō, for gar that houtos would be of no advantage alysitelēs to you hymeis.

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