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 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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