'Ministers' in the Bible

Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

He therefore who ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, is it on the principle of works of law, or of the report of faith?

From: Paul and Timothy, servants of the Messiah Jesus. To: All the holy ones in Philippi, along with their overseers and ministers, who are in union with the Messiah Jesus.

Now such people we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work quietly and earn their own food and other necessities [supporting themselves instead of depending on the hospitality of others].

Ministers, too, must be serious. They must not be two-faced, addicted to wine, or greedy for money.

But they must first be tested. Then, if they prove to be blameless, they may become ministers.

Ministers must be husbands of one wife and must manage their children and their families well.

Those ministers who serve well gain an excellent reputation for themselves and will have great assurance by their faith in the Messiah Jesus.

And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

and ministers in the Holy place and in the true tabernacle which not man, but the Lord pitched.

And this is a figure--for the time now present--answering to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, unable though they are to give complete freedom from sin to him who ministers.

We Christians have an altar from which the ministers of the Jewish Tent have no right to eat.

Likewise, you younger men [of lesser rank and experience], be subject to your elders [seek their counsel]; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another [tie on the servant’s apron], for God is opposed to the proud [the disdainful, the presumptuous, and He defeats them], but He gives grace to the humble.

the secret meaning of the seven stars which you have seen in My right hand, and of the seven lampstands of gold. The seven stars are the ministers of the seven Churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven Churches.

Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) and holy is the person who takes part in the first resurrection; over these the second death [which is eternal separation from God, the lake of fire] has no power or authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and they will reign with Him a thousand years.