30 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Be

Depart, depart, go out from there! You must not touch any unclean thing. Go out from the midst of it, keep clean, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh.

holding the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience,

They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, because they are bringing near the offerings made by fire to Yahweh--their God's food--and they shall be holy.

but hospitable, loving what is good, prudent, just, devout, self-controlled,

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews--

but commending ourselves as servants of God in every [way], in much endurance, in afflictions, in distresses, in difficulties,

And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant,

Therefore the overseer must be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching,

For it is necessary [for] the overseer to be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain,

Then I heard [the] voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "I [am] here! Send me!"

shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not by compulsion but willingly, in accordance with God, and not greedily but eagerly,

Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

nor seeking glory from people, neither from you nor from others.

I testify solemnly before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels that you observe these [things] without prejudice, doing nothing according to partiality.

{Although we could have insisted on our own importance} as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.

according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death. For to me to live [is] Christ and to die [is] gain.

You, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace [that is] in Christ Jesus,

But I discipline my body and subjugate [it], lest somehow [after] preaching to others, myself should become disqualified.

Until I come, pay attention to the [public] reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

But you, be self-controlled in all [things], bear hardship patiently, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

On account of this, I bend my knees before the Father,

always in my every prayer for all of you, making the prayer with joy,

managing his own household well, having children in submission with all dignity

just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, [since] both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you are sharers of grace with me.

Longing for you in this way, we determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls, because you had become dear to us.

Become fellow imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who walk in this way, just as you have us [as] an example.

not that we do not have the right, but so that we may give ourselves [as] an example to you, so that [you] may imitate us.

Let no one look down on your youth, but be an example for the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

and not as lording it over {those under your care}, but being examples for the flock.