Bible Verses About Ministers: Qualified by God

Then I said, "Woe to me! I [too] am doomed! because I, a man with unclean lips, living among a people with unclean lips, have seen with my own eyes the King, ADONAI-Tzva'ot!"

One of the s'rafim flew to me with a glowing coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.

He touched my mouth with it and said, "Here! This has touched your lips. Your iniquity is gone, your sin is atoned for."

It is not that we are competent in ourselves to count anything as having come from us; on the contrary, our competence is from God.

He has even made us competent to be workers serving a New Covenant, the essence of which is not a written text but the Spirit. For the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.