25 Bible Verses about Ministers, Way They Should Teach

Philip reached the city of Samaria, and proclaimed the Christ to them.

for I resolved, while I was with you, to forget everything but Jesus Christ and his crucifixion.

And they asked him, "Master, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you show no favor, but teach the way of God in sincerity.

If one preaches, let him do it like one who utters the words of God; if one does some service, let him do it as with strength which God supplies, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed their message by the signs that attended it.

Those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the good news of the message.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news??ut not with fine language, or the cross of Christ might seem an empty thing.

So when I came to you, brothers, I did not come and tell you the secret purpose of God in superior, philosophical language,

For it is not myself but Christ Jesus that I am proclaiming as Lord; I am only a slave of yours for Jesus' sake.

For I am no peddler of God's message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message.

I disown disgraceful, underhanded ways. I refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's message. It is by the open statement of the truth that I would commend myself to every human conscience in the sight of God.

For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it.

"Go, take your stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."

I never shrank from telling you anything that was for your good, nor from teaching you in public or at your houses,

by the force of signs and marvels, and by the power of the holy Spirit, with the result that I have completed the preaching of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

What I tell you in the dark you must say in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ear, you must proclaim from the housetops. Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

So since I have such a hope, I speak with great frankness,

That was the kind of affection we had for you, which made us ready to share with you not only God's good news but our own lives too, because you were so dear to us.

while we devote ourselves to prayer and to delivering the message."

preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.

As surely as God can be relied on, there has been no equivocation about our message to you. The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus, Timothy, and I, you have not found wavering between "Yes" and "No." With him it has always been "Yes,"

Look out for yourself and for your teaching. Persevere in your work, for if you do you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching the Christ from jealousy and partisanship, but there are others who are doing it out of good-will. These latter do it from love for me, for they know that God has put me where I am to defend our right to preach the good news. But the others are preaching the Christ not sincerely but for their own ends, imagining that they are making my imprisonment harder to bear.

What pay then do I get? Why, that in my preaching I can offer the good news without cost, and so not take full advantage of my rights as a preacher.

You remember, brothers, how we toiled and labored. We worked night and day, when we preached the good news to you, in order not to be a burden to any of you.