Bible Verses About Ministers

I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus,

and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

And thou--watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers--especially they of the circumcision--

whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:

Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith--considering the issue of the behaviour--be imitating,

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.

Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to behave well,

if any one doth speak--`as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister--`as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power--to the ages of the ages. Amen.

feed the flock of God that is among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.