30 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Be

Turn aside, turn aside, go out thence, The unclean touch not, go out from her midst, Be ye pure, who are bearing the weapons of Jehovah.

having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,

they are holy to their God, and they pollute not the name of their God, for the fire-offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, they are bringing near, and have been holy.

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, that befell me in the counsels of the Jews against me;

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

And I hear the voice of the Lord, saying: 'Whom do I send? and who doth go for Us?' And I say, 'Here am I, send me.'

feed the flock of God that is among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death, for to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.

Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus,

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

till I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching;

And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.

so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,