17 Have confidence in your leaders(A) and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you(B) as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.

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17 Obey your leaders[a] and submit to them, for 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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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 13:17 Or rulers