Matthew 9:38
Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
John 10:11
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Acts 20:28
Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.
Hebrews 12:9
So, then, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?
1 Peter 5:2-4
Act as shepherds to the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for the sake of sordid gain, but from readiness of mind: