Bible Verses About Ministers

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Messiah, and Stachys, my beloved.

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Messiah Yeshua;

For Messiah sent me not to immerse, but to proclaim the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Messiah wouldn’t be made void.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know anything among you, except Yeshua the Messiah, and him crucified.

My speech and my proclaiming were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

So let a man think of us as Messiah’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the Torah also say the same thing?

For it is written in the Torah of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

For if I proclaim the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don’t proclaim the Good News.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

What then is my reward? That, when I proclaim the Good News, I may present the Good News of Messiah without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Messiah.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.