12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be

neither as lording it over the allotted charges, but becoming examples to the flock;

except that the Holy Spirit testifieth to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me.

not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it, not by constraint, but willingly; nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind;

For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base gain;

but we renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, not handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If still I were pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.

but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, Who proveth our hearts.

being pressed on every side, yet not cooped up; perplexed, yet not despairing; pursued, yet not abandoned; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

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

And He said, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but, going, publish abroad the Kingdom of God."

No one, serving as a soldier, entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.