26 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Be

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

but hospitable, a lover of good, sober-minded, righteous, pious, temperate;

serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and with trials which befell me in the plottings of the Jews;

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

now a servant of the Lord must not engage in strife, but should be gentle towards all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong,

It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach,

For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base gain;

feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it, not by constraint, but willingly; nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind;

Behold, this 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 seeking glory of men, neither from you, nor from others; though able to be in authority, as apostles of Christ.

I solemnly charge you before God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

But we became gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children:

But I make not my soul of any value as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify the Gospel of the grace of God.

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

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

But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage; lest, by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Until I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching.

But be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully accomplish your ministry.

For this cause I bow my knees to the Father,

presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity

even as it is right for me to think this in behalf of you all; because ye have me in your heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, all of you being partakers with me of the grace.

so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not only the Gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us.

Brethren, become imitators together of me, and mark those who so walk, as ye have us as an example.

not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves as a model to you, that ye might imitate us.

Let no one despise your youth; but become a model for believers, in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

neither as lording it over the allotted charges, but becoming examples to the flock;