13 Bible Verses about Pastors

He also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant. This is a covenant not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

We have this ministry to do, even as we obtained mercy, we do not lose heart.

All things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ. He gave the ministry of reconciliation to us.

Be on guard for yourselves and the flock that the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Feed the Congregation of God that he purchased with the blood of his own [Son].

Shepherd the flock of God in your care. Exercise the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God. Do not do it for dishonest gain, but eagerly.

The overseer must be blameless as God's steward. He must not be self-willed, not prone to anger, not a brawler, and not violent (quarrelsome) (pugnacious), not greedy of dishonest gain.

Is any among you sick? Let him call the elders of the congregation. Let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of God.

We will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word.

He said to them, Go into the entire world, and preach the good news to the whole creation.

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

Do not lord it over your charge, but make yourselves examples to the flock.

Faithful is the saying: If a man seeks the office of overseer, he desires a good work. The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach; not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;