12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be

neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.

save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

But he said unto him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but go thou and publish abroad the kingdom of God.

No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.