12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be

not by way of lording it over your charges but proving a pattern to the flock.

Only, I know this, that in town after town the holy Spirit testifies to me that bonds and troubles are awaiting me.

not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money,

be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly instead of being pressed to it, not to make a base profit from it but freely,

[For a bishop must be above reproach ??he is a steward of God's house ??he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.

on every side I am harried but not hemmed in, perplexed but not despairing, persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed ??10 wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body:

grieved but always glad, a 'pauper', but the means of wealth to many, without a penny but possessed of all.

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

No soldier gets entangled in civil pursuits; his aim is to satisfy his commander.