12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be
Most Relevant Verses
neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, as God wants; not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
