NET

17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.

Darby

17 Obey your leaders, and be submissive; for *they* watch over your souls as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this [would be] unprofitable for you.

KJV

17 Obey them that have the rule^K7222over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that [is] unprofitable for you.

KJV Bible Notes

have the rule: Or, guide.

Strong's

17 Obey ^G3982 them that have the rule^G2233 over you^G5216, and^G2532 submit yourselves^G5226: for^G1063 they^G846 watch^G69 for^G5228 your^G5216 souls^G5590, as^G5613 they that must give^G591 account^G3056, that^G2443 they may do^G4160 it^G5124 with^G3326 joy^G5479, and^G2532 not^G3361 with grief^G4727: for^G1063 that^G5124 is unprofitable^G255 for you^G5213.