12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be

Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

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

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

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

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

Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.