Bible Verses About Ministers

And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God,

salute Arbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved;

I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus,

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but--to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God,

for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;

and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power--

so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth--God;

if of any one the work doth remain that he built on it , a wage he shall receive;

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,

who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?

According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?

for in the law of Moses it hath been written, `thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for the oxen doth God care?

or because of us by all means doth He say it ? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading ought of his hope to partake in hope.

If we to you the spiritual things did sow--great is it if we your fleshly things do reap?

for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news;

for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly--with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

What, then, is my reward? --that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

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

Followers of me become ye, as I also am of Christ.

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with us and labouring;

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;