12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be
Most Relevant Verses
except that the Holy Spirit testifies from city to city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.
no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money,
Tend ye the flock of God among you, watching over, not by obligation, but willingly, nor greedily, but readily,
For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to angry, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,
But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.
For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.
but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.
restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing, persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed.
as grieving, but always rejoicing; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
But Jesus said to him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but thou, after departing, proclaim the kingdom of God.
No man who serves in the military entangles himself in the affairs of life, so that he may please the man who enlisted the army.
