Bible Verses About Ministers

And now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God on my behalf

Greetings to Urbanus, our fellow worker for the Messiah, and to my dear friend Stachys.

I thank my God always for you because of God’s love and kindness given to you through the Messiah Yeshua,

For the Messiah did not send me to immerse but to proclaim the Good News — and to do it without relying on “wisdom” that consists of mere rhetoric, so as not to rob the Messiah’s execution-stake of its power.

As for me, brothers, when I arrived among you, it was not with surpassing eloquence or wisdom that I came announcing to you the previously concealed truth about God;

for I had decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Yeshua the Messiah, and even him only as someone who had been executed on a stake as a criminal.

and neither the delivery nor the content of my message relied on compelling words of “wisdom” but on a demonstration of the power of the Spirit,

So neither the planter nor the waterer is anything, only God who makes things grow —

If the work someone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward;

So, you should regard us as the Messiah’s servants, as trustees of God’s secret truths.

Did you ever hear of a soldier paying his own expenses? or of a farmer planting a vineyard without eating its grapes? Who shepherds a flock without drinking some of the milk?

What I am saying is not based merely on human authority, because the Torah says the same thing —

for in the Torah of Moshe it is written, “You are not to put a muzzle on an ox when it is treading out the grain.” If God is concerned about cattle,

all the more does he say this for our sakes. Yes, it was written for us, meaning that he who plows and he who threshes should work expecting to get a share of the crop.

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?

For I can’t boast merely because I proclaim the Good News — this I do from inner compulsion: woe is me if I don’t proclaim the Good News!

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if I do it unwillingly, I still do it, simply because I’ve been entrusted with a job.

So then, what is my reward? Just this: that in proclaiming the Good News I can make it available free of charge, without making use of the rights to which it entitles me.

I treat my body hard and make it my slave so that, after proclaiming the Good News to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Do not be an obstacle to anyone — not to Jews, not to Gentiles, and not to God’s Messianic Community.

Just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not looking out for my own interests but for those of the many, so that they may be saved;

try to imitate me, even as I myself try to imitate the Messiah.

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain; on the contrary, I have worked harder than all of them, although it was not I but the grace of God with me.

I urge you to submit yourselves to people like these and to everyone who works and toils with them.

who encourages us in all our trials, so that we can encourage others in whatever trials they may be undergoing with the encouragement we ourselves have received from God.