13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. 3 Let them do this 4 with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.
1 tn Grk “in assurance of faith.”
2 sn The phrase our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience combines the OT imagery of the sprinkling with blood to give ritual purity with the emphasis on the interior cleansing provided by the new covenant: It is the heart that is cleansed and the conscience made perfect (cf. Heb 8:10; 9:9, 14; 10:2, 16).
3 tn Or “as ones who will give an account”; Grk “as giving an account.”
4 tn Grk “that they may do this.”