17 Obey your leaders[a] and submit to them, since they keep watch(A) over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.

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  1. 13:17 Or rulers

17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with sighing, for that would be harmful to you.(A)

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