50 Bible Verses about Ministry, Qualifications For

Not for your multitude did Jehovah delight in you above all the peoples, and will he choose you, for ye were few more than all the peoples. For Jehovah loves you and watches the oath which he sware to your fathers: Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and he will redeem thee from the house of servants, from the house of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Thou shalt not say in thy heart in Jehovah thy God's thrusting them out from before thee, saying, For my justice Jehovah brought me forth to possess this land; and for the injustice of these nations Jehovah dispossessed them from before thee. Not for thy justice and for the straightness of thy heart thou goest in to possess this land, but for the injustice of these nations Jehovah thy God dispossesses them from before thee, and order to lift up the word which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob.

But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong; And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed: That no flesh might boast before him.

And Moses will say to God, Who am I that I shall go to Pharaoh, and that I shall bring forth the sons of Israel, out of Egypt?

And he will say to him, With leave, my Lord, by what shall I save Israel? behold, my thousand destitute in Manasseh, and I the least in my father's house.

And Saul will answer and say, Am not I a son of the Jaminite, from the littleness of the tribes of Israel, and my family small more than all the families of the tribes of Benjamin and wherefore spakest thou to me according to this word?

And David will say to Saul, Who am I? and who was my father's family in Isarel that I shall be son-in-law to the king?

And now, Jehovah my God, thou madest thy servant king instead of David my father and I a little boy, shall not know to go out and come in.

And saying, Wo to me! for I was cut off; because I a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell: for mine eyes saw the king, Jehovah of armies.

And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah, behold I knew not to speak: for I a boy.

And Jehovah will come and stand and call as once to once, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel will say, Speak, for thy servant heard.

And I shall hear the voice of Jehovah, saying, Whom shall I send, and who shall go for us? and behold me saying, Send me.

And faith is the foundation of things hoped for, the proof of things not seen. For by this were the elders testified of.

And Jacob will say to his father, I am Esau thy first-born; I did according to that thou spakest to me: arise, now, sit and eat from my hunting, so that thy soul shall praise me. And Isaak will say to his son, How this, thou wert quick to find my son? and the will say, Because Jehovah thy God caused to meet before me. And Isaak will say to Jacob, Come near, now, and I shall feel thee, my son, if thou this my son Esau or notread more.
And Jacob will come near to Isaak his father, and he will feel him, and he will say, The voice, the voice of Jacob; and the hands, the hands of Esau. And he knew him not, for his hands were as the hands of Esau, his brother of hair: and he will praise him. And he will say, Thou this my son Esau? and he will say, I.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Come up to this mountain of the regions beyond, and see the land which I gave to the sons of Israel And thou sawest it, and wert gathered to thy people, thou also, as Aaron thy brother was gathered. As ye rebelled against my mouth in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the assembly to consecrate me at the waters before their eyes, these the Waters of Strife, of Kadish of the desert of Zin.

And David will send messengers and take her: and she will come in to him, and he will lie with her; (and she being consecrated from her uncleanness:) and she will turn back to her house.

And Jehovah will be angry with Solomon, for his heart was turned from Jehovah the God of Israel, being seen to him twice. And he commanded him concerning this word not to go after other gods: and he watched not what Jehovah commanded. And Jehovah will say to Solomon, Because this was with thee, and thou didst not watch my covenant and my laws which I commanded upon thee, rending, I will rend the kingdom from thee and give it to thy servantread more.
But in thy days I will not do it for sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son will I rend it But I will not rend all the kingdom; one tribe I will give to thy son for sake of David my servant, and for sake of Jerusalem which I chose.

And having called his twelve disciples, he gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every weakness. And the names of the twelve sent are these: first, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James, he of Zebedee and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James, he of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, he surnamed Thaddeus;read more.
Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, he also having delivered him up.

And he made the twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them forth to proclaim, And have power to cure diseases, and cast out demons: And he set to Simon the name Peter;read more.
And James, him of Zebedee, and John brother of James; and he set to them names Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder: And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James him of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite, And Judas Iscariot, who also delivered him up.

And it was in those days, he went out to the mount to pray, and he was passing the whole night in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called to his disciples: and having chosen twelve from them, and he named them, the sent; Simon, (and he named him Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,read more.
Matthew and Thomas, James, him of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelotes, Judas, of James, and Judas Iscariot, and he was the traitor.

And the Lord said to him, Go: for he is a vessel of choice to me, to lift up my name before nations, and kings, and the sons of Israel:

And now in the hope of the solemn promise having been made to the fathers by God, I stand, being judged,

And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us. Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed; Being driven out, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;read more.
Always bearing about in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our body. For we, the living, are always delivered to death for Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So that death is truly energetic in us, and life in you.

And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up.

But for this was I commiserated, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a model to them about to believe on him to eternal life.

For my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, so that continually I make mention of you, always supplicating in my prayers;

James, servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, health.

Paul, servant of Jesus Christ, called sent, separated to the good news of God,

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants what things must be with speed; and he signified having sent by his angel to his servant John:

Of which I Became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the energy of his power

If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant;

That I might be saved from the unbelieving in Judea; and that my service for Jerusalem be acceptable to the holy ones;

And I place with you Phebe our sister, being servant of the church in Cenchrea:

And I beseech you brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and they arranged themselves for service to the holy ones,)

For truly, concerning the service to the holy ones, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

And that ye also might know the things concerning me, what I do, Tychicus will make all things known to you, the dearly beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord:

As also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellowservant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you;

Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

For this, having this service, as we were compassionated, we lose not courage;

And the twelve having called the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not pleasing for us, having left the word of God, to serve tables. Therefore, survey, brethren, seven men of you, being witnesses full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom ye shall set over this need. And we will persevere in prayer, and the service of the word.

And all things of God, having reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the service of reconciliation;

To take the lot of this service and sending forth, from which Judas passed by, to go to his own place.

(For be having been energetic in Peter for the mission of circumcision, was energetic also in me for the nations:)

For me to be the, workman of Jesus Christ to the nations, offering in sacrifice the good news of God, that the bringing forward of the nations be acceptable, consecrated in the Holy Spirit.

Therefore must there, of these men having come with us in all the time in which the Lord Jesus came in and came out among us,

Therefore, survey, brethren, seven men of you, being witnesses full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom ye shall set over this need.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction; Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice; Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity;read more.
(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser. And he must also have good testimony from them without;lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the accuser.

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain. But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm; Holding firmly the faithful word according to instruction, that he may be able also to beseech in sound doctrine, and to refute those opposing.

Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain; Having the mystery of faith in pure consciousness. And let these also first be tried; then let them perform the office of footman, being blameless.read more.
Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things. Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over the children and their own houses. For they having served well, acquire to themselves a good step, and much freedom of speech in the faith which in Christ Jesus.

And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness.