Bible Verses About Ministers: Ensample to the flock

Be ye followers of me, brethren: and observe them who walk so as you have our model.

Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.

Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.