12 Bible Verses about Ministers, Should Not Be

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;

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

feed the flock of God that is among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

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

and Jesus said to him, 'Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;