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 “putting…I will inscribe.”
2 sn A quotation from Jer 31:33.
3 tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.
4 tn Or “sojourners.”
5 tn Or “as ones who will give an account”; Grk “as giving an account.”
6 tn Grk “that they may do this.”