30 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Be

Away, away, get you out from thence and touch no unclean thing. Go out from among such. And be clean ye that bear the vessel of the LORD.

but having the mystery of the faith in pure conscience.

They shall be holy unto their God, and not pollute the name of their God, for the sacrifices of the LORD and the bread of their God they do offer: therefore they must be holy.

but harborous, one that loveth goodness, sober minded, righteous, holy, temperate,

serving the Lord with all humbleness of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which happened unto me by the layings wait of the Jews,

but in all things let us behave ourselves as the ministers of God. In much patience, in afflictions, in necessity, in anguish,

But the servant of the Lord must not strive: but must be peaceable unto all men, and apt to teach,

Yea, and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly appareled, harborous, apt to teach,

For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre:

After this I heard the voice of the LORD, taking advisement on this manner, "Whom shall I send, and who will be our messenger?" Then I said, "Here am I, send me."

see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind.

Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.

neither sought we praise of men, neither of you, nor yet of any other, when we might have been chargeable, as the apostles of Christ.

I testify before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without hasty judgment, and do nothing partially.

But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children,

But none of those things move me. Neither is my life dear unto myself; that I might fulfill my course with joy, and the ministration which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

as I heartily look for and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed: but that with all confidence, as always in times past, even so now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be through life, or else death. For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage.

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

but I tame my body and bring it into subjection, lest after that I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

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

But watch thou in all things, and suffer adversity, and do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thine office unto the utmost.

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

always in all my prayers for you all, and pray with gladness,

and one that ruleth his own house honestly, having children under obedience, with all honesty.

as it becometh me so to judge of you all, because I have you in my heart, and have you also every one companions of grace with me, even in my bonds as I defend, and establish the gospel.

so was our affection toward you. Our good will was to have dealt unto you, not the gospel of God only: but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

Brethren, be followers of me, and look on them which walk even so, as ye have us for an example.

not but that we had authority: but to make ourselves an example unto you, to follow us.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be unto them that believe, an example: in word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith and in pureness.

Not as though ye were lords over the parishes: but that ye be an example to the flock.