30 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Be

Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don't touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the Lord's holy items!

holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

"'They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the Lord's gifts, the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy.

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

But as God's servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,

And the Lord's slave must not engage in heated disputes but be kind toward all, an apt teacher, patient,

The overseer then must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,

For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God's work, not arrogant, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain.

I heard the voice of the sovereign master say, "Whom will I send? Who will go on our behalf?" I answered, "Here I am, send me!"

Give a shepherd's care to God's flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God's direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,

Before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, I solemnly charge you to carry out these commands without prejudice or favoritism of any kind.

although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,

But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God's grace.

My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die. For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

So you, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

Until I come, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist's work, fulfill your ministry.

For this reason I kneel before the Father,

I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you

He must manage his own household well and keep his children in control without losing his dignity.

For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God's grace together with me.

with such affection for you we were happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in your speech, conduct, love, faithfulness, and purity.

And do not lord it over those entrusted to you, but be examples to the flock.