Bible Verses About Ministers

Againe, thinke yee that wee excuse our selues vnto you? we speake before God in Christ. But wee doe all thinges, dearely beloued, for your edifying.

Therefore write I these thinges being absent, least when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, according to the power which the Lord hath giuen mee, to edification, and not to destruction.

For nowe preach I mans doctrine, or Gods? or go I about to please men? for if I should yet please men, I were not the seruant of Christ.

And the trial of me which was in my flesh, ye despised not, neither abhorred: but ye receiued me as an Angel of God, yea, as Christ Iesus.

Let him that is taught in the worde, make him that hath taught him, partaker of all his goods.

For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ,

For the repairing of the Saintes, for the woorke of the ministerie, and for the edification of the bodie of Christ,

And for me, that vtterance may be giuen vnto me, that I may open my mouth boldly to publish the secret of the Gospel,

But that ye may also know mine affaires, and what I doe, Tychicus my deare brother and faithfull minister in the Lord, shall shewe you of all things,

I thanke my God, hauing you in perfect memorie,

(Alwayes in all my praiers for all you, praying with gladnesse)

As it becommeth me so to iudge of you all, because I haue you in remembrance that both in my bands, and in my defence, and confirmation of the Gospell you all were partakers of my grace.

Some preache. Christ euen through enuie and strife, and some also of good will.

The one part preacheth Christ of contention and not purely, supposing to adde more affliction to my bandes.

But the others of loue, knowing that I am set for the defence of the Gospell.

As I feruently looke for, and hope, that in nothing I shalbe ashamed, but that with all confidence, as alwayes, so nowe Christ shalbe magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.

For Christ is to me both in life, and in death aduantage.

But yee knowe the proofe of him, that as a sonne with the father, hee hath serued with me in the Gospel.

And trust in the Lord, that I also my selfe shall come shortly.

Receiue him therefore in the Lord with all gladnesse, and make much of such:

Brethren, bee followers of mee, and looke on them, which walke so, as yee haue vs for an ensample.

Yea, and I beseech thee, faithfull yokefellow, helpe those women, which laboured with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowe labourers, whose names are in the booke of life.

For this cause wee also, since the day wee heard of it, cease not to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be fulfilled with knowledge of his will in all wisdome, and spirituall vnderstanding,

And say to Archippus, Take heede to the ministerie, that thou hast receiued in the Lord, that thou fulfill it.

For our exhortation was not by deceite, nor by vncleannes, nor by guile.