13 Bible Verses about Pastors

who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Therefore, since we have this ministry, just as God has shown us mercy, we do not become discouraged.

And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Give a shepherd's care to God's flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God's direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.

For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God's work, not arrogant, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain.

Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

And do not lord it over those entrusted to you, but be examples to the flock.

This saying is trustworthy: "If someone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a good work." The overseer then must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher, not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.