30 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Be

Turn aside, turn aside, come ye forth from thence; ye shall not touch the unclean thing; come forth from the midst of her; be separated ye lifting up the vessels of Jehovah.

Having the mystery of faith in pure consciousness.

They shall be holy to their God, and profane not the name of their God: for the sacrifices of Jehovah, and the bread of their God they bring: and they were holy.

But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;

Serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, having happened to me by the insidious plots of the Jews:

But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities,

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

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.

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.

Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children.

Neither seeking glory of men, nor of you, nor of others, being able to be in weight, as the sent of Christ.

I call to witness before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that thou watch these things without preference, doing nothing by bending.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children:

But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death. For me to live is Christ, and to die gain.

Thou therefore, my child, be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.

But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

Till I come, hold to reading loud, to entreaty, to doctrine.

And thou be sober in all things, suffer ill treatment, do the work of the bearer of good news, render thy service perfectly certain.

For this I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Always in all my prayer for you all with joy making prayer,

Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity;

As it is just for me to think this concerning you all, for my having you in the heart; both in my bonds, and in the justification and confirmation of the good news, ye all being partakers of grace with me.

So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us.

Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.

Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us.

Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Neither as ruling over the portions obtained by lot, but being types of the flock.