Bible Verses About Ministers

Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, are for your up-building,

because of this, these things--being absent--I write, that being present, I may not treat any sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

and my trial that is in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me--as Christ Jesus;

And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing--in all good things.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,

And that ye may know--ye also--the things concerning me--what I do, all things make known to you shall Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful ministrant in the Lord,

I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

always, in every supplication of mine for you all, with joy making the supplication,

according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.

Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set:

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

for to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.

and the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;

and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come.

receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour,

become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us--a pattern;

and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

and say to Archippus, `See to the ministration that thou didst receive in the Lord, that thou mayest fulfil it.'

for our exhortation is not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,