1 Corinthians 4:1
This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths.
1 Corinthians 9:13
Do you not know that as men who perform temple-rites get their food from the temple, and as attendants at the altar get their share of the sacrifices,
2 Corinthians 3:6
and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant ??a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.
2 Corinthians 6:4
I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,
2 Corinthians 11:23
Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;
Hebrews 7:13-14
He who is thus described belongs to another tribe, no member of which ever devoted himself to the altar;