13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. 5 Let them do this 6 with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.
1 tn Grk “and again,” as a continuation of the preceding.
2 tn Grk “behold, I,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).
3 tn Grk “and.”
4 sn A quotation from Isa 8:17-18.
1 tn Or “as ones who will give an account”; Grk “as giving an account.”
2 tn Grk “that they may do this.”