Bible Verses About Titles and Names of Ministers

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

¶ I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.

The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

¶ And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

¶ Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

¶ Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

¶ We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.