12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be

Not as domineering over the heritages, but having become examples of the flock:

except that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesses to me, saying that bonds and tribulations await me.

not given to wine, not a controvertist; but gentle, peaceable, not a money lover;

shepherdize the flock of God which is among you, not coercively, but willingly, for the sake of God; not for filthy lucre, but cheerfully.

For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre;

but we lay aside the hidden things of disgrace, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but in the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men, before God.

For must I now believe men, or God? whether do I seek to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I would not be the servant of Christ.

but as we were approved of God that the gospel should be intrusted unto us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who is proving our hearts,

in everything being troubled, but not in difficulties incorrigible; being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss; being persecuted, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;

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

And Jesus said to him, Let the dead bury their dead; but thou having gone away proclaim the kingdom of God.

No one operating as a soldier is entangled with the affairs of life; in order that he may please his commander.