13 Bible Verses about Pastors

Who also qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

Therefore, having 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 to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit appointed you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it, not by constraint, but willingly; nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind;

For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base gain;

Is anyone among you sick? let him call for the elders of the assembly; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord;

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

And He said to them, "Going into all the world, preach the Gospel to the whole creation.

in hypocrisy of men speaking lies, branded in their own conscience with a hot iron;

neither as lording it over the allotted charges, but becoming examples to the flock;

Faithful is the saying, "If anyone desires the office of bishop, he covets a noble work." It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach, not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,