12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be

Do not lord it over the people entrusted to you, but be examples to the flock.

except that in town after town the Holy Spirit assures me that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me.

He must not drink excessively or be a violent person, but instead be gentle. He must not be argumentative or love money.

Be shepherds of God's flock that is among you, watching over it, not because you must but because you want to, and not greedily but eagerly, as God desires.

Because an overseer is God's servant manager, he must be blameless. He must not be arrogant or irritable. He must not drink too much, be a violent person, or make money in shameful ways.

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not use trickery or pervert God's word. By clear statements of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be the Messiah's servant.

Rather, because we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, we speak as we do, not trying to please people but God, who tests our motives.

In every way we're troubled but not crushed, frustrated but not in despair, persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed.

as sorrowful and yet always rejoicing, as poor and yet enriching many, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

But he told him, "Let the dead bury their own dead. But you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

No one serving in the military gets mixed up in civilian matters, for his aim is to please his commanding officer.