27 Bible Verses about Ministers, Way They Should Teach

And Philip, who went down to a city of Samaria, proclaimed the Christ to them.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, even this crucified man.

And they questioned him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou speak and teach rightly, and thou do not accept a personage, but teach the way of God in truth,

If any man speaks, as oracles of God. If any man serves, as of ability as God supplies. So that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

And those men, having gone forth, they preached everywhere, the Lord working jointly, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Truly.

Indeed therefore those who were scattered abroad passed through proclaiming the good-news, the word.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.

And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not in eminence of speech or of wisdom proclaiming the testimony of God to you.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus.

For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

For our exhortation is not from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deception,

Go ye, and after standing in the temple, speak to the people all the sayings of this Life.

How I kept back nothing of these things that are beneficial, not to inform you, and to teach you in public, and from house to house,

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good-news of Christ.

Cry aloud, spare not. Lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dwell among scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebe

What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light, and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops. And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Having therefore such a hope we use great boldness,

Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us.

But we will continue steadfastly in prayer, and in the service of the word.

preach the word, stand ready in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

But God is faithful, because our word toward you became not, yes and no. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was proclaimed among you by us (by me and Silvanus and Timothy) became not, yes and no, but in him has become, yes.

Hold firm to thyself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this thou will save both thyself and those who hear thee.

Actually some also preach the Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good-will. Some indeed proclaim the Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to bring affliction to my bonds. But some from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the good-news.

What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.