12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be

Neither as ruling over the portions obtained by lot, but being types of the flock.

But that the Holy Spirit testifies in the city, saying that bonds and pressures await me.

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.

But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:

Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed; Being driven out, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;

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

And Jesus said to him, Permit the dead to inter their own. dead; and thou, having gone, announce the kingdom of God.

None making war is entangled with the affairs of life: that he may please him having enlisted him.