12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be

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

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in town [after town], saying that bonds and persecutions await me.

not addicted to wine, not a violent person, but gentle, peaceable, not loving money,

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

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,

but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.

For am I now making an appeal to people or [to] God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts.

We are afflicted in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed;

as grieving, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and possessing everything.

But he said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead! But you go [and] proclaim the kingdom of God."

No one who serves as a soldier is entangled in the activities of [everyday] life, so that he may please the one who enlisted [him].