27 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Be

holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.

but the stranger's host, the good man's friend, grave, just, holy, temperate;

serving the Lord with all humility, and with many tears and trials, which have befallen me through the lying in wait of the Jews:

but in every thing approving ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

And a servant of the Lord ought not to quarrel; but to be gentle to all men, apt to teach, forbearing,

A bishop then must be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, temperate, sagacious, respectable, hospitable, well qualified for teaching;

For a bishop ought to be irreproachable, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not irritable, not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy of filthy lucre;

feed the flock of God which is among you, exercising your pastoral office not of necessity, but of choice, not for base gain, but with alacrity of mind;

Lo! I hold myself ready the third time to come unto you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up treasure for their parents, but the parents for the children.

not seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, though we might have been burdensome, as apostles of Christ.

I adjure thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherisheth her own infants.

Yet I make no account of any [suffering], nor regard my life as of any value to myself, farther than as I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord, to testify fully the Gospel of the grace of God.

according to my firm expectation and hope, that I shall be confounded by no event, but that with all boldness, as always hitherto, Christ shall now also be magnified in my body, whether by my life or death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

THOU therefore, my son, be mighty in the grace which is in Jesus Christ.

but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate.

Till I come, apply to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

But watch thou in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully discharge thy ministry.

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

always in every prayer of mine for you all, making request with joy,

presiding over his own family with propriety, having his children under subjection with all gravity of behaviour:

as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I bear you on my heart, both in my bonds and in my defence and the confirmation of the gospel, as being all of you sharers in my grace.

So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us.

Be ye imitators, brethren, of me, and eye attentively those who walk so as ye have us for an example.

not that we have not such power, but that we might be ourselves an example for you to imitate.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be a pattern of the faithful, in discourse; in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

not as domineering over your allotted congregations, but as being examples of the flock.