27 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Be

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, just, holy, temperate,

serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials, which came upon me through the plots of the Jews;

but in all things we commend ourselves as the ministers of God, in much suffering, in afflictions, in distresses, in straits,

and the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but gentle toward all men, able to teach, patient under evils,

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,

For the bishop must be blame less, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not passionate, not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means;

Act as shepherds to the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for the sake of sordid gain, but from readiness of mind:

Behold, I am ready the third time to come to you, and I will not burden you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others; though we could have been burdensome as the apostles of Christ.

I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, and that you do nothing by partiality.

But we were gentle among you. As a nurse nourishes her children,

But I esteem this a matter of no importance, nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry that I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear full testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but with all boldness, as at all times, so even now, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Do you, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus;

but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

But do you be watchful in all things, endure evil, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.?

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

always in every supplication of mine for you all, making my supplication with joy

one that rules his own house well; having his children in subjection with all gravity:

as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; both in my bonds and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel, I say I have you all in my heart as being joint par takers of my grace.

so, having a strong affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives also, because you had become dear to us.

Be imitators of me, brethren, and observe those who thus walk as you have us for an example.

this we did, not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves to you as an example, in order that you might imitate us.

Let no one despise your youth; but be an example to the believers, in word, in behavior, in love, in spirit, in faithfulness, in purity.

neither as being lords over God's possessions, but being examples to the flock.