Bible Verses About Minister (1)

and a slave of the Lord shouldn’t fight. On the contrary, he should be kind to everyone, a good teacher, and not resentful when mistreated.

Also he should be gentle as he corrects his opponents. For God may perhaps grant them the opportunity to turn from their sins, acquire full knowledge of the truth,

come to their senses and escape the trap of the Adversary, after having been captured alive by him to do his will.

Moreover, understand this: in the acharit-hayamim will come trying times.

People will be self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good,

traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God,

as they retain the outer form of religion but deny its power. Stay away from these people!

For some of them worm their way into homes and get control of weak-willed women who are heaped with sins and swayed by various impulses,

who are always learning but never able to come to full knowledge of the truth.

In the same way as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moshe, so also these people oppose the truth. They are people with corrupted minds, whose trust cannot pass the test.

However, they won’t get very far; because everyone will see how stupid they are, just as happened with those two.

But you, you have closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose in life, trust, steadfastness, love and perseverance —

as well as the persecutions and sufferings that came my way in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

And indeed, all who want to live a godly life united with the Messiah Yeshua will be persecuted,

while evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

But you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, recalling the people from whom you learned it;

and recalling too how from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which can give you the wisdom that leads to deliverance through trusting in Yeshua the Messiah.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is valuable for teaching the truth, convicting of sin, correcting faults and training in right living;

thus anyone who belongs to God may be fully equipped for every good work.

I solemnly charge you before God and the Messiah Yeshua, who will judge the living and the dead when he appears and establishes his Kingdom:

proclaim the Word! Be on hand with it whether the time seems right or not. Convict, censure and exhort with unfailing patience and with teaching.

For the time is coming when people will not have patience for sound teaching, but will cater to their passions and gather around themselves teachers who say whatever their ears itch to hear.

Yes, they will stop listening to the truth, but will turn aside to follow myths.

But you, remain steady in every situation, endure suffering, do the work that a proclaimer of the Good News should, and do everything your service to God requires.