15 Bible Verses about Ministers

Ye are the light of the world. A city cannot be hid, set on a mountain. Neither do they burn a light, and set it under a basket, but upon a chandelier: and it shines to all in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.

To open their eyes, to turn them back from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, fur them to receive remission of sins, and inheritance with the consecrated by faith in me.

For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;

O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:

Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith:

And besides it is sought in stewards, that any one be found faithful.

And what thou hast heard from me by many witnesses, these things lay by for faithful men, who will be sufficient to teach others also.

Ye are the light of the world. A city cannot be hid, set on a mountain.

He was a burning and manifest light: and ye wished to rejoice for a time in his light.

And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves.

For this, having this service, as we were compassionated, we lose not courage;

Of which I Became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the energy of his power

If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant;

Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

To which I was set a herald, and sent, teacher of the nations.

For also for this was the good news announced to the dead, that truly they might be judged according to men in the flesh, and live according to God in the spirit.

Proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom of speech, unimpeded.

And they, having gone forth, proclaimed every where, the Lord performing together, and confirming the word by signs following. Amen.

In these days John the Baptist is present, proclaiming in the desert of Judea;

And I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the lasting good news to announce to them dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,

And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up.

And I shall speak to the people in the morning and my wife will die in the evening and I shall do in the morning as I was commanded.

Until this present hour we also hunger, and thirst, and we are naked, and are cuffed, and are unsteady.

In blows, in imprisonments, in disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in fastings;

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

Wherefore watch ye, remembering that the space of three years night and day I ceased not reminding each one with tears.

Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God.

Besides things outside, my distraction daily, the care of all the churches.

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

I am afraid of you, lest I have been wearied for you in vain.

Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.

For from their little even to their great, every one plundering, plundered; and from the prophet and even to the priest every one did falsehood.

Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

For also the prophets, also the priests were polluted; also in my house I found their evil, says Jehovah.

Thy prophets saw for thee vanity and a foolish thing, and they uncovered not upon thine iniquity to turn back thy captivity; and they will see for thee burdens of falsehood and seductions.

Being exercised because they taught the people, and announced in Jesus the rising up from the dead.

And Philip having come down to the city of Samaria, proclaimed Christ to them.

And Philip having opened his mouth, and begun from this writing, announced to him the good news, Jesus.

And quickly in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that he is the Son of God.

The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, announcing good news, peace through Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all.)

Being exercised because they taught the people, and announced in Jesus the rising up from the dead.

And Philip having come down to the city of Samaria, proclaimed Christ to them.

And Philip having opened his mouth, and begun from this writing, announced to him the good news, Jesus.

And quickly in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that he is the Son of God.

The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, announcing good news, peace through Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all.)

Whom they set before the sent: and having prayed, they put hands upon them.

Neglect not the power which in thee, which was given thee by the gift of prophecy, with the putting on of hands of the council of elders.

Put hands swiftly upon none, nor participate in others' sins: keep thyself pure.

By which I remind thee of the cause to light up the favor of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

And Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom; for Moses placed his hands upon him; and the sons of Israel will hear to him, and they will do as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And those understanding shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and those justifying many, as the stars forever and ever.

For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.

And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing.

For whoever should give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because ye are of Christ, verily I say to you, he should not lose his reward.

And he said to them, Having gone into all the world proclaim the good news to all creation.

What I say to you in darkness, speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the houses.

And going, proclaim, saying, That the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.

Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsnffering and teaching.

And Jesus said to him, Permit the dead to inter their own. dead; and thou, having gone, announce the kingdom of God.

And he said to them, Having gone into all the world proclaim the good news to all creation.

What I say to you in darkness, speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the houses.

And going, proclaim, saying, That the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.

Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsnffering and teaching.

And Jesus said to him, Permit the dead to inter their own. dead; and thou, having gone, announce the kingdom of God.

For the writing says, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox grinding. And, The laborer worthy of his hire.

Nor wallet for the way, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor rod: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

Thus also the Lord appointed to them announcing good news to live of the good news.

Let him being taught the word participate with him teaching in all good things.

But ye did well, participating together in my pressure.

For the writing says, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox grinding. And, The laborer worthy of his hire.

Nor wallet for the way, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor rod: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

Thus also the Lord appointed to them announcing good news to live of the good news.

Let him being taught the word participate with him teaching in all good things.

But ye did well, participating together in my pressure.

Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

Participating in the necessities of the holy ones; pursuing hospitality.

But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;

Forget not hospitality: for by this some knew not having treated angels with friendship.

Attend therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit set you inspectors, to feed the church of God, which he acquired by his own blood.

He says to him the third time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

And I gave to you shepherds according to my heart, and they fed you with knowledge and understanding.

And I raised up one shepherd over them, and he fed them, my servant David; he shall feed them and he shall be to them for shepherd.

And I set up shepherds over them, and they fed them; and they shall no more fear, and they shall not be terrified, and they shall not be reviewed, says Jehovah.

Attend therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit set you inspectors, to feed the church of God, which he acquired by his own blood.

He says to him the third time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

And I gave to you shepherds according to my heart, and they fed you with knowledge and understanding.

And I raised up one shepherd over them, and he fed them, my servant David; he shall feed them and he shall be to them for shepherd.

And I set up shepherds over them, and they fed them; and they shall no more fear, and they shall not be terrified, and they shall not be reviewed, says Jehovah.

For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:

But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

For our entreaty nor from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit:

Teaching them to keep all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of time. Amen.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech.

Proclaim and teach these things.

In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;

Teaching them to keep all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of time. Amen.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech.

Proclaim and teach these things.

In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;

Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.

And if the watchman shall see the sword coming, and he struck not upon the trumpet, and the people were not warned; and the sword shall come and take a soul from them, he was taken away in his iniquity, and his blood I will seek from the watchman's hand.

And he will say to me, Son of man, eat what thou shalt find; eat this roll, and go speak to the house of Israel. And I shall open my mouth, and he will cause me to eat this roll. And he will say to me, Son of man, thou shalt cause thy belly to eat, and thou shalt fill thy bowels with this roll which I give to thee. And eating it, it will be in my mouth as honey for sweetness. read more.
And he will say to me, Son of man, go; come to the house of Israel and speak my word to them. For not to a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue; thou art sent to the house of Israel; Not to many peoples deep of lip and heavy of tongue which thou wilt not hear their words If to them I sent thee, they will hear to thee. And the house of Israel will not hear to thee; for they are not willing to hear to me: for all the house of Israel are strong of forehead, and they are hard of heart. Behold, I gave thy face strong over against their face, and thy forehead strong over against their forehead. As the diamond strong above the rock I gave thy forehead: thou shalt not fear them, and thou shalt not be terrified from their face, for they are a house of contradiction. And he will say to me, Son of man, all my words which I shall speak to thee take into thy heart, and with thine ears hear thou. And go, come to the captivity, to the sons of my people, and speak to them, and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah; if they will hear, and if they will desist And the spirit will lift me up, and I shall hear behind me a voice of a great shaking: Praised be the glory of Jehovah from his place. And the voice of the wings of the living creatures, kissing one to the other, and the voice of the wheels over against them, and the voice of a great shaking. And the spirit lifted me up, and it will take me and I shall go bitter, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me. And I shall go to the captivity, the hill of the green ears, those dwelling at the river Chebar, and where they are sitting there, I shall sit there seven days, being astonished in the midst of them. And it will be from the end of seven days, and the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, Son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and hear thou the word from my mouth, and admonish them from me.

Truly to those an odor of death into death; and to those an odor of life into life. And who sufficient for these things?

Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

And the chief Shepherd having been manifested, ye shall be attired with an unfading crown of glory.

If the work of any shall remain which he built upon, he shall receive a reward.

Truly I say to you, That he shall set him over all his possessions.

For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship. What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news.

Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy; and hold such esteemed.

Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.

Remember them guiding you, who spake to you the word of God: of whom, observing narrowly the issue of the mode of life, imitate the faith:

And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves.

Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.

Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us.

Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Neither as ruling over the portions obtained by lot, but being types of the flock.

And ye serving together for us in prayer, that of many faces, the favor to us by many thanks be returned by us.

Pray for us: for we have trusted that we have a good consciousness, in all things wishing to be well occupied.

And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news,

And I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by love of the Spirit, to fight together with me in prayers for me to God;

So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us.

As it is just for me to think this concerning you all, for my having you in the heart; both in my bonds, and in the justification and confirmation of the good news, ye all being partakers of grace with me.

As ye know how each one of you, as a father his children, comforting and encouraging, and testifying,

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.

And my word and my proclaiming not in persuasible words of man's wisdom, but in manifestation of the Spirit and of power

And I having come to you, brethren, came not with eminence of word or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.

I appointed those watching over thy walls, O Jerusalem: all the day and all the night continually they shall not be silent: ye remembering Jehovah, no stillness to you.

Son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and hear thou the word from my mouth, and admonish them from me.

And I set up watchers over you, Attend ye to the voice of the trumpet And they will say, We will not attend.

I return thanks to my God for all your remembrance,

I return thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God given you in Christ Jesus;

For what thankfulness can we return to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for you before our God;

Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy; and hold such esteemed.

Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.

And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves.

Let him being taught the word participate with him teaching in all good things.

And he will say to the people, to those inhabiting Jerusalem, to give the portion of the priests and the Levites so that they shall be strengthened in the law of Jehovah.

Who makes war at any time at his own charges who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock? Not according to man do I speak these things: or does not the law also say these things? For in the law of Moses has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox grinding. Is there not care to God for oxen? read more.
Or does he say altogether on account of us? For it was written on account of us: that he ploughing ought to plough upon hope; and he grinding upon hope, to participate with his hope. If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things?

Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;

Silver or gold, or clothing, of none have I eagerly desired.

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

Attend therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit set you inspectors, to feed the church of God, which he acquired by his own blood.

And I gave to you shepherds according to my heart, and they fed you with knowledge and understanding.

Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

Then, when they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs. Jesus says to him again the second time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my sheep. He says to him the third time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

For what our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not also ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his arrival?

And now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced to us the good news, your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance. of us always, greatly desiring to see us, as we also you: For this, brethren, were we comforted in you in all our pressure, and necessity by your faith: For now we live, if ye stand in the Lord. read more.
For what thankfulness can we return to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for you before our God;

Call with the throat; thou shalt not spare; as a trumpet lift up thy voice, and announce to my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sin.

And thou son of man, thou shalt not be afraid of them, and thou shalt not be afraid of their words, if rebels and thorns with thee, and thou art dwelling with scorpions: thou shalt not be afraid of their words, and thou shalt not be terrified from their face, for they a house of contradiction.

What I say to you in darkness, speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the houses. And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.

Giving no offence in any thing, that the service be not blamed:

And be ye not molesters to the Jews, and the Greeks, and to the church of God: As I also please in all things to all, not seeking my advantage, but that of many, that they might be saved.

Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children.

Neither seeking glory of men, nor of you, nor of others, being able to be in weight, as the sent of Christ.

For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God.

What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news.

They shall be holy to their God, and profane not the name of their God: for the sacrifices of Jehovah, and the bread of their God they bring: and they were holy.

And make a plate of pure gold, and engrave upon it the engravings of a seal, HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH.

But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;

For if I also boast something more abundantly of our power, which the Lord gave us for the building up, and not for your taking down, I shall not be ashamed:

For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

For if I also boast something more abundantly of our power, which the Lord gave us for the building up, and not for your taking down, I shall not be ashamed:

For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace.

And now Timothy having come to us from you, and having announced to us the good news, your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance. of us always, greatly desiring to see us, as we also you:

And Philip having come down to the city of Samaria, proclaimed Christ to them.

And Philip having opened his mouth, and begun from this writing, announced to him the good news, Jesus.

For I judged not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

And by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which in me was not vain; but I was more abundantly wearied than they all: and not I, but the grace of God which with me.

So that neither he planting is anything, neither he watering; but God increasing.

As also ye observed us by part, that we are your boast, as also ye ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all.

Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed;

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

Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.

Be ye imitators of me, as I also of Christ.

For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ:

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? before God in Christ we speak: and all things, beloved, for your building up.

For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.

But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children:

Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.

That also ye be subjected to such, and to every one cooperating, and to the wearied.

And my temptation in my flesh, ye counted not as nothing, nor spurned; but as an angel of God ye received me, as Christ Jesus.

So let a man reckon us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For I concealed not to announce to you all the counsel of God.

how I concealed nothing of things profitable, not to announce to you, and teach you publicly, and in the houses,

Go ye, and having stood, speak in the temple all the words of this life.

But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities,

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

And saying, Wo to me! for I was cut off; because I a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell: for mine eyes saw the king, Jehovah of armies. And one from the seraphs will fly to me, and in his hand a hot stone, he took with the tongs from off the altar: And he will touch upon my mouth, and say, Behold, this touched upon thy lips; and took away thine iniquity, and thy sin shall be covered.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency of God; Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

But if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays to come; And he should begin to strike the fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with those intoxicated; The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not, read more.
And he shall cut him in two equal parts, and he shall set his portion with the hypocrites: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And if the watchman shall see the sword coming, and he struck not upon the trumpet, and the people were not warned; and the sword shall come and take a soul from them, he was taken away in his iniquity, and his blood I will seek from the watchman's hand. And thou son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou heardest the word from my mouth, and thou didst warn them from me. In my saying to the, unjust, O unjust one, dying, thou shalt die; and thou spakest not to warn the unjust from his way, that unjust one shall die in his iniquity, and I will seek his blood from thine hand.

These having laid down to the brethren, thou shalt be a good servant of Jesus Christ, brought up in the words of faith and good doctrine, which thou bast closely followed.

And some of love, knowing that I am placed for justification of the good news:

But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death. For me to live is Christ, and to die gain.

For this I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Always in all my prayer for you all with joy making prayer,

Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity. Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.

For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision: Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

And he having believed and having been immersed shall be saved; but he not having believed shall be condemned.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.

Till I come, hold to reading loud, to entreaty, to doctrine.

Bestow diligent care upon these things; be in them; that thy progress may be manifest in all things.

I have contended earnestly the good contest, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith:

This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare;

Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity;

Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over the children and their own houses.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

And I also ask thee, worthy yoke-fellow, aid those women who fought in company with me in the good news, and with Clement, and the rest of my co-workers, whose names in the book of life.

Embrace Urban, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

Let them go: they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

And they will heal the breaking of the daughter of my people by making light, and saying, Peace, peace; and no peace.

Turn aside, turn aside, come ye forth from thence; ye shall not touch the unclean thing; come forth from the midst of her; be separated ye lifting up the vessels of Jehovah.

Having the mystery of faith in pure consciousness.

He hearing you hears me and he rejecting you rejects me; and he rejecting me rejects him having sent me.

Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

For the lips of the priest shall watch knowledge, and they shall seek the law from his mouth: for he is the messenger of Jehovah of armies.

Therefore all whatever they say to you to keep, keep and do; and according to their works do not, for they say and do not.

Between the porch and to the altar the priests serving Jehovah shall weep, and they shall say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and thou wilt not give thine inheritance to reproach for the nations to rule over them: wherefore shall they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Wine and strong drink thou shalt not drink, thou and thy sons with thee, in your going in to the tent of appointment; and ye shall not die: a law forever to your generations.

But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;

None making war is entangled with the affairs of life: that he may please him having enlisted him.

And Jesus said to him, Permit the dead to inter their own. dead; and thou, having gone, announce the kingdom of God.

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

And thou, bring thou Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from the midst of the sons of Israel, for him to be a priest to me, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, sons of Aaron.

And not any takes this honour to himself; but the called of God, as also Aaron.

And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.