Bible Verses About Ministers

But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed to us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who proveth our hearts.

For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):

Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others.

Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children:

So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls: because you were become most dear unto us.

For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children),

But now when Timothy came to us from you and related to us your faith and charity, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us as we also to see you:

Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your faith.

Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord.

For what thanks can we return to God for you, in all the joy wherewith we rejoice for you before our God,

That you esteem them more abundantly in charity, for their work's sake. Have peace with them.

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

This precept, I commend to thee, O son Timothy: according to the prophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a good warfare,

It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.

Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.

Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children and their own houses.

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

Till I come, attend unto reading, to exhortation and to doctrine.

Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy profiting may be manifest to all.

Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.

Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.