Bible Verses About Ministers

Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,

for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

and on my behalf, that utterance may be given unto me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,

But that ye also may know my affairs, how I do, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:

I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,

always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my supplication with joy,

even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

the one do it of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.

but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honor:

Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.

Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: