25 Bible Verses about Ministers, Way They Should Teach

And Philip went down to a city of Samaria, and preached to them the Christ.

For I determined not to know anything while with you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and hast no regard to the person of men, but teachest the way of God truly.

If any one speak, let him speak as uttering the oracles of God; if any minister, let him do it as from the ability which God giveth; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

and they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs which followed it.]

Now those that had been scattered abroad went through the country preaching the word.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus sake.

For we are not as the many, who adulterate the word of God; but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

but have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every mans conscience in the sight of God.

For our teaching is not from error, nor from impurity, nor in guile;

Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

how I kept back nothing that was profitable, but have made it known to you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house;

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and in the country around even to Illyricum, I have fully made known the gospel of Christ;

What I say to you in darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim ye upon the housetops. And fear not 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 hope, we use great plainness of speech;

so having a strong affection for you, we were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us.

but we will give ourselves closely to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

preach the word, be urgent in season, out of season, confute, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and teaching.

But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yea and nay. For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not found yea and nay, but in him hath been found yea.

Give heed to thyself, and to thy teaching; continue in them; for in doing this thou wilt save both thyself and them that hear thee.

Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from good will. They who are of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel; but they who are of a factious spirit preach Christ with no pure intent, thinking to stir up affliction to my bonds.

What then is my reward? It is that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel free of charge, that I use not to the full my right as a preacher of the gospel.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.