30 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Be

Depart you, depart you, go out from there, touch no unclean thing; go out of the midst of her; be you clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.

Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good, sensible, just, holy, temperate;

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

But in all things presenting ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not violent, not given to dishonest gain;

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for dishonest gain, but of a ready mind;

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children:

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

But you watch in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fully carry out your ministry.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all respect;

Even as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; since as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear unto us.

Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them who so walk, since you have us for an example.

Not because we have not that right, but to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.