27 Bible Verses about Ministers, Way They Should Teach

Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah to them.

For I didn’t think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

They questioned Him, “Teacher, we know that You speak and teach correctly, and You don’t show partiality, but teach truthfully the way of God.

If anyone speaks, it should be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, it should be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the accompanying signs.]

So those who were scattered went on their way preaching the message of good news.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize—not with clever words, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.

When I came to you, brothers, announcing the testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom.

For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves because of Jesus.

For we are not like the many who market God’s message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.

For our exhortation didn’t come from error or impurity or an intent to deceive.

“Go and stand in the temple complex, and tell the people all about this life.”

and that I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you anything that was profitable or from teaching it to you in public and from house to house.

by the power of miraculous signs and wonders, and by the power of God’s Spirit. As a result, I have fully proclaimed the good news about the Messiah from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.

“Cry out loudly, don’t hold back!
Raise your voice like a trumpet.
Tell My people their transgression
and the house of Jacob their sins.

“But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words, though briers and thorns are beside you and you live among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words or be discouraged by the look on their faces, for they are a rebellious house.

What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. What you hear in a whisper, proclaim on the housetops. Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Therefore, having such a hope, we use great boldness.

We cared so much for you that we were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the preaching ministry.”

Proclaim the message; persist in it whether convenient or not; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching.

As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.” For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—did not become “Yes and no”; on the contrary, a final “Yes” has come in Him.

Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

To be sure, some preach Christ out of envy and strife, but others out of good will. These do so out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel; the others proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely, seeking to cause me anxiety in my imprisonment.

What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my authority in the gospel.

For you remember our labor and hardship, brothers. Working night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.