25 Bible Verses about Ministers, Way They Should Teach

and Philip going down to a city of Samaria preached Christ to them.

For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

And they asked him saying, Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly, and respect no person, but teach the way of God in truth.

If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.

And they went abroad and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the accompanying miracles.

Being scattered abroad, therefore, they went everywhere preaching the good news of the word;

For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect.

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

For we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

For we are not as many, who adulterate the word of God, [for gain]; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak before God in Christ.

but have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but commending ourselves by the manifestation of the truth to every conscience of men before God.

For our exhortation was not of error, nor of impurity, nor with deceit,

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

how I kept not back from declaring to you and teaching you publicly and from house to house any thing that was profitable,

by the power of miracles and prodigies, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light, and what you hear in the ear, preach on the house-tops. And fear not those who kill the body and are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Having therefore this hope we use great boldness,

so being greatly desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own souls, because you were dear to us.

but we will attend continually to prayer, and the ministry of the word.

preach the word, press it in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and instruction;

But as God is faithful, our word to you was not yes and no. For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but was yes in him;

Attend to yourself, and to teaching; continue in it, for doing this you will both save yourself and those that hear you.

For some indeed preach Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good will; [\ul Note: The text of verse in Sawyer]those from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel,

What then is my reward? That preaching I may make the gospel without expense, that I may not abuse my right in the gospel.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and weariness; that working night and day not to be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.