12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be
Most Relevant Verses
except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.
not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.
Give a shepherd's care to God's flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God's direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.
For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God's work, not arrogant, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain.
But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.
Am I now trying to gain 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 a slave of Christ!
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.
We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair; we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed,
as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
But Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God."
No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.
