Bible Verses About Ministers

but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,

But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also to see you;

for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:

for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.