12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be

nor as lording it over those allotted to you by God, but becoming examples to the flock.

except that the Holy Spirit witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

in every way having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss; having been persecuted, but not having been forsaken; having been thrown down, but not having been destroyed;

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.

Jesus said to him, Let the dead bury their dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.

No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.