30 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Be

Get out of her my people! Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure, you who carry the vessels of Jehovah.

They should maintain the secret of the faith with a clear conscience.

Be God's holy men. Do not dishonor the name of your God. Be holy because you bring sacrifices by fire to Jehovah. It is the food (bread) of your God.

but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials that came on me by the plots of the Jews.

In everything we commend ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

The Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind (gentle) to all, able to teach, and patient when wronged.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach;

The overseer must be blameless as God's steward. He must not be self-willed, not prone to anger, not a brawler, and not violent (quarrelsome) (pugnacious), not greedy of dishonest gain.

I heard the voice of Jehovah. He said: Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said: Here I am. Send me!

Shepherd the flock of God in your care. Exercise the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God. Do not do it for dishonest gain, but eagerly.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you. I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. The children should not provide for the parents, but the parents for the children.

We did not try to get praise from anyone, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we could have made demands on you.

I charge you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these [principles] without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

But we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother taking care of her children.

I do not consider my life of any account. It is not dear to me so that I may finish the race, and I may accomplish the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to preach the good news of the grace of God.

I will not be put to shame according to my earnest expectation and hope. With all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in me, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace (loving-kindness) that is in Christ Jesus.

But I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, so that after I have preached to others I will not be disqualified.

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

Be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist (preacher of the good news), and fulfill your ministry.

For this cause I bow my knees to the Father.

I always offer prayer filled with joy for you,

one who manages well his own house, having his children in subjection with all seriousness;

It is right for me to feel this way on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart. Both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the good news you are all partakers with me of grace.

Having much affection for you, we were well pleased to impart the good news of God to you and also to share our lives with you. You have become very dear to us.

Brothers, be imitators of me. Pay attention to those who live by the example we have given you.

It is not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example for you to imitate us.

Let no man look down on your youth. Be an example to the believers in speech and conduct, in love, in faith and chasteness.

Do not lord it over your charge, but make yourselves examples to the flock.