13 Bible Verses about Pastors

who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word.

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach; no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;