11 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be

and not as tyrannizing over those in your charge but proving models for the flock;

except that in every town I visit, the holy Spirit warns me that imprisonment and persecution are awaiting me.

not addicted to drink or pugnacious, but a man of moderation and peace, not avaricious,

For as God's overseer a superintendent must be irreproachable, not arrogant or quick-tempered or given to drink or pugnacious or addicted to dishonest gain,

I disown disgraceful, underhanded ways. I refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's message. It is by the open statement of the truth that I would commend myself to every human conscience in the sight of God.

Is that appealing to men's weaknesses, or to God? Is that trying to suit men? If I were still doing that, I would be no slave of Christ.

God has thought us fit to be intrusted with the good news, and so we tell it, making no effort to please men, but to please God, who tests our hearts.

I am hard pressed on every side, but never cut off: perplexed, but not driven to despair; routed, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed;

pained, when I am always glad, poor, when I make many others rich, penniless, when really I own everything.

Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you must go and spread the news of the Kingdom of God!"

Anyone who is in the army keeps from being involved in business affairs, so as to please the officer who enlisted him.