12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be
Most Relevant Verses
Save that the Holy Ghost testifieth to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.
Not given to wine, no striker, not desirous of filthy gain, but gentle, patient, not loving money;
Feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it not by constraint, but willingly, not for filthy gain, but of a ready mind,
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no striker, not desirous of filthy gain:
not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully corrupting the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
For do I now satisfy men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
But as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who trieth our hearts.
We are troubled on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; thrown down, but not destroyed;
As sorrowing, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.
But he said, Lord, Suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said to him, Let the dead bury their dead, but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
No man that warreth intangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath inlisted him.
