Bible Verses About Ministers

He saith to him the third time, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;

and they gave their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

`Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'

and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.'

they then indeed, having been scattered, went abroad proclaiming good news--the word.

And Philip having gone down to a city of Samaria, was preaching to them the Christ,

and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him--Jesus.

who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,

And there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also--Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother--and Saul;

and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,'

These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus,

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, that befell me in the counsels of the Jews against me ;

how nothing I did keep back of what things are profitable, not to declare to you, and to teach you publicly, and in every house,

testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

`Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;

`The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;

preaching the reign of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness--unforbidden.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God--

How then shall they call upon him in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe on him of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'

in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;